Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1998 15:32:00 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT laima DOT acad DOT latnet DOT lv>
cc: Vik Heyndrickx <Vik DOT Heyndrickx AT rug DOT ac DOT be>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com,
        Robert Hoehne <robert DOT hoehne AT gmx DOT net>
Subject: Re: Rebuilding config.in in gcc-2.8.1
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On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Andris Pavenis wrote:

>    You cannot under Win95 delete or rename file if it is 
>    opened by other process (one will get EACCESS in this situation).

This is correct.

> As I looked in autoheader this temporary file is created by
> redirecting output of come command. Maybe bash did not close this
> file up to this time.

How can this be?  When you say something like "foo > autoh14321", the
file where output is redirected is closed as soon as `foo' exits.  And
I believe the command that created the temporary file has already
exited at the point where it is mv'ed, no?