On 1/18/07, Damjan Jovanovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 1/17/07, Teemu Ikonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you don't wait for the forked process to finish before deleting the file, then you have a bug called a race condition which apparently manifests in wine and not in Windows: you're relying on the forked process to open the file before it gets deleted.
I know and I'm a bit surprised it actually works under windows as well as it does. This program is used extensively under various (modern) versions of windows, and it never fails this way. I agree this type of code is rather ugly and even incorrect (it's not my code, I just have access to it), but I assume the wine project is aiming for bug-for-bug compatibility with windows? Probably this kind of bug is hard to fix though, as this code relies on the windows scheduler giving the new process a rather large slice of CPU time before returning to the forking process. Teemu
