From: Kirk Haines <wyhaines@...>
Date: 2011-02-09T00:36:53+09:00
Subject: Re: "permission denied" happening too often

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Jeremy Bopp <jeremy@bopp.net> wrote:
> On 2/8/2011 8:45 AM, Kirk Haines wrote:
>> The nutshell here is that something -- possibly the virus scanner or
>> possibly some other software -- is touching the file when your script
>> runs, altering the permissions such that your script can't do what
>> it's trying to do.
>
> Just to be clear.  It's not that something is changing the ACLs on the
> file or anything.  Rather, a file or directory that is in use by another
> program cannot be removed or relocated on Windows without some ugly
> trickery.  This is a limitation of Windows itself.

Right. I was just being intentionally general in my phrasing, since
the advice is applicable to anyone writing code to move files around,
regardless of OS.


Kirk Haines

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