File locking of target executable

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@false.org
Tue Mar 2 20:44:00 GMT 2004


On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 03:41:24PM -0500, Kris Warkentin wrote:
> Argh.  I always see the answer AFTER I mail to the mailing list.  Looks 
> like Windows itself won't let a binary be removed if it's executing.  
> The problem report states that this is happening in the remote case but 
> I just checked and it doesn't seem to be.  Must be an error in the bug 
> report.

It can happen in the remote case too sometimes - I don't think Windows
lets you delete an open file either.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer



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