Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 00:32:11 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: "'Cygwin Mailing List (E-mail)'" Subject: Re: tar 'mini'-bug Message-ID: <20010809003211.B8223@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: Corinna Vinschen , "'Cygwin Mailing List (E-mail)'" References: <8F23E55D511AD5119A6800D0B76FDDE1CA3018@cpex3.channelpoint.com> <001501c12052$be449fa0$2101a8c0@nomad> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <001501c12052$be449fa0$2101a8c0@nomad>; from tiberius@braemarinc.com on Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 04:40:28PM -0500 On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 04:40:28PM -0500, Gary R Van Sickle wrote: > Mmmm, I think you're wrong on that. I believe ME, crappy as it is, gets > this one thing right and behaves the same as Why2K in that respect, in that > you can't write to an executable file that's in use by the OS. I'm not at a Excerpt from MSDN: Windows 95/98/Me: The DeleteFile function deletes a file even if it is open for normal I/O or as a memory-mapped file. To prevent loss of data, close files before attempting to delete them. Windows NT/2000 or later: The DeleteFile function fails if an application attempts to delete a file that is open for normal I/O or as a memory-mapped file. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/