I wrote a program, in which my code is checking the word entered by user and the word in a file. If the words are not same, the file is deleted.
i closed the file using fclose(fp), (where fp is file pointer)
and to delete the file i used system("del filename.txt").
But, i get a messsage saying that the file is in use by another process.
My question is HOW?? When I closed the file then how it can be in use of some other process??
Need assistance on this ... thanks!!
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My gut reaction is to say that this is a timing issue, but it's possible that fclose() failed. First try testing the return value to see if there …
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