From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2007-02-04T06:18:34+09:00
Subject: Re: yet another linux <-> win32 question

On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 05:59:48AM +0900, 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?
> 
Did you #close the file before you tried to delete it?
> Thanks,
> Peter
> 
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