At 6:42 PM -0500 12/11/01, Magesh Umasankar wrote:
>From: "Dmitri G. Chtchekine" <dgchtch@emory.edu>
>
>> I get exception trying to delete some files (OS is Windows NT).
>
>Windows doesn't let a program delete any file that is "locked"
>by the OS at the time of attempting to delete. Such is not the case
>in Unix. So this problem will usually occur in Windows only.
Not entirely true! It turns out that many NFS implementations also
die if you attempt to manipulate a file which is still open. Some of
them even let the call finish, write a temp file to the disk with an
enlightening name like .nfs872987410938741097341, then block on the
NEXT read attempt!
Scott
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