Re: [Mingw-users] Removing the same file from two consoles

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

Benjamin Riefenstahl wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> 
> 
> "Alex Vinokur" <al...@co...> writes:
> 
>>Here is some program which was invocated on two consoles.
>>
>>The program behavior is different on
>> * Cygwin, DJGPP on the one hand
>>   and
>> * Mingw on the other hand
>> environments.
> 
> 
> If I understand you correctly, you see that with MS's runtime (Mingw)
> a file that is open can not be removed, while with the Cygwin runtime
> it can.
> 

And Cygwin has special coding for cygwin dll dependent binaries that 
tracks the file was to be deleted and deletes it after the file is closed.

Earnie.