Microsoft recommends changing this, so we need to know whether existing apps rely on it:
On Windows (but not elsewhere) this fails with a "sharing violation": path := "rename-after-open" fd, err := os.OpenFile(path, os.O_RDWR|os.O_CREATE, 0600) if err != nil { ... } err = os.Rename(path_a, path_b) // or os.Remove(path) if err != nil { ... } // sharing violation fd.Close() Do you know of Windows apps that expect this error, which is undocumented in package "os" ? Microsoft has suggested that Go on Windows should switch to Unix-like behavior: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/32088 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAKvHMgSWehzEATg5L_w6mCngnm1q1LkVyQ8PpE1T1R9%3D5QQ-gw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.