Darren New wrote:
> 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?

I'm pretty sure you have to blame Microsoft itself for that. Isn't open() 
defined in msvcrt.dll?

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