Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 13:48:26 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Juanjo Erauskin <juanjo AT jet DOT es>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Problem with shared open
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On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Juanjo Erauskin wrote:

> 	I have a DJGPP compiled program that runs in W95. This open a file in
> O_RDWR mode in one MSDOS window and then program runs OK. But if I try
> to run this same program in another MSDOS window then program fails and
> set errno with this error:
> 
> 		(4) EACCES - Permission denied

What happens if one program opens the file with O_RDWR, but the other 
with O_RDONLY?  Does it work then?  If it does, then maybe this is just 
the Windows way of saving you from trouble?