On Tuesday 2001-09-25 at 08:35:02 +0200, Nando Dessena wrote:

> > One of the consequences of the Unix way of doing file locking is that
> > system maintenance tasks, such as backup, are often a good deal
> > easier. For instance, a log file could be moved to a backup directory
> > by one process while another is busy writing to it. Try that in
> > Windows. :-) Or a temporary file can be deleted ("unlinked") by one
> > process while that process or another process still has it open for
> > reading or writing. That's something else you won't have much luck
> > trying to do in Windows...
>
> I have never had the need (nor the wish) to make a copy of a
> work-in-progress, but if I ever have such urge, I'll remember that I
> should use a Linux system to allow me to do it. ;-)

Good on you! :-)

Ciao.

David Trudgett