nemesis wrote:
> My guess is that that won't change while the portable C stdlibs they use don't
> get updated to more modern times to cope with extra features... when in doubt,
> use the lowest common denominator.

Yeah, I think that's the basic problem. Even so, you'd think the portable 
libraries would at least try to support the same semantics where they can. I 
hear the "Windows can't delete an open file" so often it's silly. Why 
wouldn't you make your C compiler's "open" function set the flag that says 
"let me delete open files" if that's how it works in POSIX?

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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