Re: [Fwd: Re: Delete a file THAT big? Surely you are joking.]

2006-12-20 Thread Bruce Richardson
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 08:00:25PM +, Jonathan Stowe wrote: > > 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 reas

Re: [Fwd: Re: Delete a file THAT big? Surely you are joking.]

2006-12-18 Thread Peter da Silva
> 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. Absolutely, because 99.44% of the time the program will be gone within seconds anyway, and of the remaining 0.56% of the time 99.4% of the time the program isn't

Re: [Fwd: Re: Delete a file THAT big? Surely you are joking.]

2006-12-18 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 08:00:25PM +, Jonathan Stowe wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 20:11 +0100, A. Pagaltzis wrote: > > * Yossi Kreinin [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

[Fwd: Re: Delete a file THAT big? Surely you are joking.]

2006-12-18 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 20:11 +0100, A. Pagaltzis wrote: > * Yossi Kreinin [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 t