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On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 20:11 +0100, A. Pagaltzis wrote: > * Yossi Kreinin <yossi.kreinin@xxxxxxxx.xxx> [2006-12-18 18:35]: > > I'm a programmer. My program created a big file. Give me the > > POWER to *DELETE* *MY* *FILE*!! > > On Windows, you'd be told the file is busy and it wouldn't be > deleted. Which is so obviously totally inferior to removing the name of the file from the directory but leaving the file to fill up the disk. Sure it allows you to do big, clever, obscure and POWERFUL things that mere mortals can't understand, but it doesn't help in freeing space on the disk. The real windows hate would be that it doesn't tell you which program it is that has the file open, nor provide any tools out of the box that would help you find that out, but hey it least it has an API that can do that reasonably quickly - on Unix you have to grovel through the filesystem or the kernel's list of file descriptors to find that out... /J\
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