How to safely maintain a status file

[Chris Angelico]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Rick Johnson
<rantingrickjohnson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 12, 2:39 pm, Christian Heimes <li... at cheimes.de> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Sounds like a reasonable fail-safe to me.

POSIX says that files and file names are independent. I can open a
file based on its name, delete the file based on its name, and still
have the open file there. When it's closed, it'll be wiped from the
disk.

ChrisA