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Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 16:25:55 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Joerg Schilling <schilling AT fokus DOT gmd DOT de>
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To: corinna AT vinschen DOT de, dj AT delorie DOT com
Cc: cgf AT cygnus DOT com, cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: Change in errno.cc


>From cygwin-developers-return-407-schilling=fokus DOT gmd DOT de AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Thu Jul  1 16:00:40 1999

>ETXTBSY may only be returned if you're trying to run a program that's
>being written to, or write to a program that's currently running.

>If two programs open a data file for exclusive writing, one of them
>should get EACCES.


This is right, in addition you should have a look at:

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/

to make the behaviour compatible to UNIX-98 which is preferred
to Posix behavour.

Jörg

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