Re: locked log files on a cygwin install

On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 01:08:10AM -0500, tabris wrote:

> > Look?s like I am unable to cat, less, more, etc the log files while
> > IRSSI is running in my cygwin environment. Has anybody else
> > experienced this or found work arounds? I very much would like to
> > continue using IRSSI but in my work environment, searching through
> > logs is a must. Disconnecting, searching the logs, and reconnecting is
> > not a viable solution in this case.
>
> try rotating your logs hourly? unfortunately from what I am told,
> Windows requires exclusive locks on such files, and thus it cannot be
> avoided.

It could be avoided if irssi did not keep the files open between writes.

Regards
Andrew