Re: tar and open files

["Steven Hartland" <killing at multiplay dot co dot uk>]

That's a cool idea but its not an install so no pending files :(

I was toying with the idea of amending tar for cygwin so that
it could move the offending files to a specific dir or /var/tmp
by default when encountering such a file. All the times I've
tried this its still possible to move the file even though its
locked open. Delete fails otherwise --unlink would work
Actually now I just said it could alter --unlink to do a move
if the delete failed and that would also fix and would be
a neater solution. What do people think?

    Steve 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Dessent" <brian@dessent.net>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 11:45 PM
Subject: Re: tar and open files


> "DePriest, Jason R." wrote:
> > 
> > For a DLL, does just unregistering the DLL do what you need?  I mean,
> > running 'regsvr32 /u <dll>', put new file in place, run 'regsvr32
> > <dll>'?
> 
> No.  The replacement only occurs at boot-time.
> 
> I don't know if this is quite off-topic or not but I wrote the following
> perl script which reads the list of Pending File Rename Operations (to
> occur at next boot time) and outputs a shell script to perform them. 

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