Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 09:47:04 +0300 (WET)
From: Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT ieva01 DOT lanet DOT lv>
To: Alain Magloire <alainm AT rcsm DOT ece DOT mcgill DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: Wrong errno value from rename() when sharing problems under
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On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Alain Magloire wrote:

> Bonjour M. Eli Zaretskii
> 
> > On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Alain Magloire wrote:
> > 
> > > I thought, according to an old thread in this list, you could not
> > > do fd=open("file",..);unlink("file");read(fd,...);
> > 
> > That's not the problem that Andris was reporting.  His test program
> > worked as expected: the file was indeed NOT renamed, and the call to
> > `rename' failed.
> 
> ...
> Ha ! Sorry for the interruption
> But does this mean one can not rename() an open file in
> DOS/Win9x ? If yes, dommage.
> 

It's seems to be so with Win95. It's not so with plain DOS, WinNT however
I havent' tested for different side effects. 

Complain to Bill Gates

Andris