I've never done much Windows development, but even as a user, I've wondered what is up with the file locking. In the *nix world, deleting an open file is no pro

I've never done much Windows development, but even as a user, I've wondered what is up with the file locking. In the *nix world, deleting an open file is no problem. It just goes away when the last process closes it. In Windows, you can't drag a file to the Recycling Bin if an application has even used it recently, it seems. I always wondered what the heck that was for. So it's a legacy of DOS?