Need help to finish DMD zip/7z release generator (alpha release)

[Nick Sabalausky]

On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 16:58:48 +0200
Paulo Pinto <pjmlp at progtools.org> wrote:

> On 25.09.2013 15:36, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> > On Sun, 22 Sep 2013 08:59:04 +0200
> > Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario at gmx.de> wrote:
> >>
> >> I retried and had the issue with access to
> >> %TEMP%/".create_dmd_release problem problem during startup again.
> >> This time it was TortoiseGitCache holding a handle to that
> >> directory. Killing that process helped.
> >>
> >
> > Yea, Windows is a pain with file/directory locking :/
> 
> Well, actually Windows is way better than POSIX in this regard,
> because Windows like a few other systems does implement locking at
> the kernel level.
> 
> Whereas POSIX locking relies in a form of userspace cooperative
> locking that does not prevent someone to come in between and mess up
> with the files.
> 
> Nothing like deleting a file or write to it, while it is in use by
> other processes, without any means to prevent such actions in a
> portable way.
> 

Oh right, that's certainly true, which I why I have a bit of a
love/hate thing for how Windows does it. It's safer and more "correct",
but also frequently a big pain. Stoopid tradeoffs...