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Hello,

* On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 06:45:12PM +0000 Dave Korn wrote:
 
>   This is Cygwin correctly implementing the POSIX "can delete a file while
> retaining a handle to its contents" semantic, followed by the known Cygwin
> problem (a restiction of the underlying windows OS) that you can't (as you can
> in POSIX) create a new file in place of the old one while you keep that handle
> to the old one's contents.

This restriction could be solved by renaming the file before deleting
it.

The only problem I see with this approach: What file name to choose for
the rename operation?

Best regards,
Spiro.

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