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From: "Bonzini" <bonzini@gnu.org>
To: "Max Bowsher" <maxb@ukf.net>, "Robert Mecklenburg" <mecklen@cimsoft.com>
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Subject: Re: sed -i problem?
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 00:48:15 +0100
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> I did a quick bit of strace-ing, and it seems that sed isn't closing the
> input and output files before doing the rename. Unsurprisingly, this fails
> with "Access is denied.".

Ok, that's enough for me to track the problem.  It is a bug, simply it does
not show up on Unix which is a lot more permissive in this regard.

Paolo


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