From: ara.t.howard@... Date: 2007-02-04T06:12:59+09:00 Subject: Re: yet another linux <-> win32 question On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Peter Szinek wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry for these dumb questions but I am really off when it comes to doing > anything with win32. > > So, the thing is that I have a function that creates a temp file, then does > something with it and deletes it. I am doing this with > > File.delete(temp_filename) > > On linux this script runs without any problems, however under windows I am > getting 'Permission denied (Errno::EACCESS). > > Since the file is unquestionably deletable, I think maybe windows locks it > for whatever reason (or maybe not) - am I doing something wrong, or if not, > is there a workaround for this? > > Thanks, > Peter gem install linux ?? -a -- we can deny everything, except that we have the possibility of being better. simply reflect on that. - the dalai lama