in reply to Unlink Permission Denied

It is Windows thing!!!!

I too threw the two lines of code on a unix box. File gets removed! Windows gives you a permissions error!

I will have to sleep on it! Sorry about that!

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Re: Re: Unlink Permission Denied
by graff (Chancellor) on May 03, 2002 at 04:12 UTC
    It's a windows thing!
    Yes, indeed. Redirection to a file in unix works like this:
    - open output file for truncate (>) or append (>>)
    - start all processes involved in the pipeline
    - keep data flowing through the pipe to the file till something quits.
    In windows/dos, it seems to go something like this:
    - run the first process in the pipeline, and put its output somewhere; when it finishes:
    - start the next process (if any) and pass it the output created by the previous process
    - when the last process is done, write its output to the redirection file.
    Maybe windows does something to create the file first (else you'd get a "file not found" error from unlink), but it's protected until the OS is done with it (which is after your process exits).
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