How to safely maintain a status file

[Christian Heimes]

Am 12.07.2012 19:43, schrieb Laszlo Nagy:
> Well, I didn't know that this is going to work. At least it does not
> work on Windows 7 (which should be POSIX compatible?)

Nope, Windows's file system layer is not POSIX compatible. For example
you can't remove or replace a file while it is opened by a process.
Lot's of small things work slightly differently on Windows or not at all.

Christian