> They should at least stop putting misinformation in the documentation like 
> "you can't delete open files in Windows" or "Windows doesn't have links". 
> That's just plain wrong. The minimum would be to phrase it as "we don't 
> open files in a mode that allows them to be deleted while open" and "we 
> don't

Darren, how do you delete an OS-locked file or directory under Windows XP? 
Can you point me to an api-call?

This is NOT meant as a tease, I am really interested in a solution to this 
problem, if you know it.

About the links: yes, windows does indeed support links. I do not dare to 
use them anymore. I tried once, but since people don't expect hard links 
under Windows to some it came as a nasty surprise when they discovered the 
doublettes they thought they were deleting were the actually hard linked 
files...

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