[windows] Can't delete a closed file?

[wjoe]

On Thursday, 9 May 2019 at 10:09:23 UTC, Cym13 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this is likely not related to D itself but hopefully someone 
> can help me with this since I'm rather new to windows 
> programming, I mainly work on linux. I'm trying to bundle a DLL 
> in a binary, write it in a temp folder, use it and remove the 
> dangling file.
>
> [...]

That's a windows "feature". You can't delete files that are in 
use. The fact that you close the file in your program isn't a 
guarantee that there's no other open handles around.

For the same reason you have to restart windows after every 
update to apply it.