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Re: cannot create temp file for here document


On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 11:49:46AM -0700, Barry Demchak wrote:
>cd /tmp
>cat >foo
>blah blah blah ^Z
>strace -o strace_unlink.out unlink foo

If you are really typing a CTRL-Z here, then you are suspending the cat
which is creating the foo.  That means that cat would be keeping the foo
open, which means that cygwin would be using "unlink-on-last-close"
semantics.  The UNIX/linux/cygwin method EOF character is CTRL-D.

Otherwise, I can't duplicate this behavior on either XP or W2K on either
a FAT or a FAT32 disk.

>In playing around with this, I'm getting the feeling that cygwin maintains 
>a shadow permission list for each file.

Nope.

My WAG is that you are running some other software running in the
backgroundwhich is interfering with normal windows behavior.

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