Spurious write permission error

Tue May 3 06:21:59 PDT 2016

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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