Date:	Sun, 11 Apr 1999 13:54:03 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	Alain Magloire <alainm AT rcsm DOT ece DOT mcgill DOT ca>
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On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Alain Magloire wrote:

> Yes, I was wandering about that, I've ran the stdio tests on my NT box
> with a minimalist DJGPPv2.0 and everything was allright.  I did make
> sure everytime that the file was removed.  I thought it was an NT thing.

It *was* an NT thing; see my other mail about unlink-while-open.

In general, the NT filesystem is much very compatible with Unix-style
behavior, based on my testing.  Even the most intricate assumptions in
the latest "tail --follow" operation work on NT, no matter what do you
do to the file it tracks (rename it, delete it, recreate it, etc.).

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