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Date:	Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:11:01 -0600
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According to Martine Carannante on 3/20/2009 10:06 AM:
> Hi
> 
> I kow that several persons have sent a mail concerning this problem, but
> unfortunately I don't see a clear solution in the mailing list.
> It seems to me very strange because  this kind of code happens very often .

Is this under cygwin 1.5 or 1.7?  It makes a difference, because the two
versions handle unlink() differently.  By default, Windows doesn't allow
deleting an open file (your code forgot to call fclose()).  Cygwin can
fake unlink() to make it appear that an open file has been deleted, but
the file still exists until it is closed, and depending on where the file
exists (which changes according to your cygwin version), the previous
existing file can be in the way of recreating a new file of the same name.

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Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
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