On 09/08/2015 06:54 PM, David M. Lloyd wrote: > I think the only questionable platform at this point is Windows (to me > at least, given that I do not have much experience on it).
That's right, and it's Windows which has the worst problem: on UNIX you can delete a file which is mapped, on Windows AFAIK you can't. I think that MR is referring to Windows when he talks about race conditions. Andrew.