On 12 Nov 2013, at 2:25pm, Tim Streater <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 12 Nov 2013 at 13:49, Simon Slavin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Doesn't matter because OS X is, at heart, Unix. Unix is a bit weird in that >> it allows you to move and delete a file which is open. > > I wouldn't describe this as weird, it should be SOP for an OS, IMO. It's > (one) of the things that irritates me about Windows. If I try to delete a file while it's open I expect to get an error message "Can't delete file because it's open.". That's what the mainframe OSen I used first did. When I first encountered Unix I found it very weird. But that design does have its advantages. Including the way it so neatly solves the problem this thread is about. Simon. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list [email protected] http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
