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I've dealt with far too many cases of crashed programs retaining their locks on files to call it anything but buggy. And Windows offers no UI for finding out w

by Pxtl 5y ago

I've dealt with far too many cases of crashed programs retaining their locks on files to call it anything but buggy. And Windows offers no UI for finding out which process is holding the file handle.

zvrba 5y ago
I think your diagnosis is wrong. When the program exits, in whatever way, all resources/locks/etc are cleaned up. (Hey, the OS is also nice enough to tell waiters about abandonend mutexes.) There's no built-in GUI, but there's Process Explorer and other sysinternals utilities that you can use to find out what is keeping the file open.
layer8 5y ago
Windows comes with Resource Monitor which can be used for that purpose: https://superuser.com/a/643312/62 https://superuser.com/a/643312/62