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Ask HN: Why doesn't this ever get fixed?
Folks,
I primarily develop on Linux but occasionally jump to Windows to write an app or two. I have been programming for 7 years, and Windows has existed for a lot more than that. I am really curious to know why the following bugs have never been resolved:
1) A file opened in Read mode by process A cannot be opened by another.
2) Why do we have to work with a backslash for windows paths when even the WWW adopted a forward slash for paths.
Also, never understood why a drive must started with [alphabet]:??? Its so clean to do just /mnt/foo
Are these even bugs or "Features" :-)
- spooneybarger 16y ago#2 can be chalked up to backwards compatibility.
- bdfh42 16y agoThe Windows stream open statements allow for simultaneous access by another process.
- stonemetal 16y agocd do/stuff/now works for me on winXP. You can't reference the root of a drive as / (it must be \ or drive letter:\)but all other path separators can be flipped.
- stonemetal 16y agoNote: I had a chance to try this on win7 cd / works there as well as the rest of the separators.