Moving open files

[Mario Vukelic]

On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 20:13 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> Ah! But why is there no lock file? In MS Windows XP one cannot move or
> delete an open file.

I would guess that is less because of special thoughtfulness of the
Windows developers, but a result of Windows' broken file locking
concept. 

The fact that one cannot move or delete open files is the very reason
for Windows' need to be rebooted all the time after installations.