overwriting an in-use executable

Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
Sun Dec 13 14:50:00 GMT 2009


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According to Christian Franke on 12/13/2009 5:16 AM:
> 
> Same when trying to 'rm' an in-use executable: Works on 1.7, fails with
> 'Permission denied' on 1.5. Cygwin 1.7 works like Linux here. I don't
> know whether POSIX requires this behavior.

POSIX allows both behaviors, but the cygwin 1.7 behavior is more like
Linux and traditional unix semantics (which is why so much effort was put
into improving the handling of open files for 1.7).

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Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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