On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 10:40:01PM +0100, C E Macfarlane wrote:
> 1) The OS - the OP was working with Windows, while all none of his
> respondents are. It might be that Windows is less forgiving of attempts by
> one process to access a file that is currently being updated by another
> process.
File locking semantics are completely different on Windows compared to
Unix, and get_iplayer is written in perl, which has very much a Unixy
background. I've not looked at the code, but unless there's extra
special Windows sauce in there it might not work.
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