> That is what they do with the latest patches. It is pretty much > equivent to the POSIX system. That requires Native NT Calls, and is > not part of win32. It is equivlent to marking the file for deletion > on close, except the other handles do not need to have shared_delete. > The moving the file to the recycle bin just gets the file out of the > way.
On a true POSIX system, this would not be necessary: you can immediately create a new file in place of the previous one after you're done with unlink, and there is no way to get the file back - but there is on Windows (go to the recycle bin). > But for what it is worth, the next cygwin release will be doing > exactly what is described above. Indeed, I reported what the Cygwin code does (or will do once released). Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
