Change in errno.cc

Joerg Schilling schilling@fokus.gmd.de
Thu Jul 1 07:26:00 GMT 1999


>From cygwin-developers-return-407-schilling=fokus.gmd.de@sourceware.cygnus.com Thu Jul  1 16:00:40 1999

>ETXTBSY may only be returned if you're trying to run a program that's
>being written to, or write to a program that's currently running.

>If two programs open a data file for exclusive writing, one of them
>should get EACCES.


This is right, in addition you should have a look at:

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/

to make the behaviour compatible to UNIX-98 which is preferred
to Posix behavour.

Jörg

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