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From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen" <garbage_collector AT telia DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: unlink(2) or fopen(3) failing under cygwin
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 19:51:39 +0100
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com]On Behalf
> Of Blair P.Houghton
> Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 5:45 PM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: unlink(2) or fopen(3) failing under cygwin
> 
> 
> I forget.  What's the command to dump the system config?
> 
> Here's what `uname -a' says:
> 
>     CYGWIN_NT-5.1 eMachine64-3000 1.5.7(0.109/3/2) \ 
> 2004-01-30 19:32 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin
> 
> unlink(2) seems to be causing a subsequent fopen(3)
> to fail.  Originally, it was the unlink call that
> failed, but putting it in a loop
> 
>     while(!unlink(...))
> 
> made it work.
> 
> Does anyone know of any reason an fopen on the
> just-unlinked file would fail under Cygwin?

 IIRC this has been up earlier;  unlink() isn't atomic.
Search the archives:
 google("site:cygwin.com inurl:ml +atomic +unlink")
might be a good start I guess.


/Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - 59+16.37'N, 17+12.60'E

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