在Linux上删除文件，但在Windows上删除

Question

So I have this program in Java, where I make a file, write to it and save it. But after the program finishes it's job, I want it to delete the file it created.

Here is the code with which I make the file and delete it:

RandomAccessFile file = null;
file = new RandomAccessFile("myFile.zip", "rw");
file.write(buffer,0,read);
file.close();
File file = new File("myFile.zip");
file.delete();

It cannot be related to how Windows and Linux use their file paths ( \\ or /) as I don't really specify it other than showing it to be at the root of my project.

So what might be the case in this situation?

Answer 1

Windows notices the open file handle and refuses to delete the open file. That's a policy in Windows. Files which are open do not disappear. The process holding the open file handle can rely on that the file will stay.

Linux has a different policy. There a file can be deleted from all directories (yes, it can be in more than one when it is hard linked), even if a process still has an open handle on it. The file itself will then not be removed from the disk. The process using the open handle can still process the file, make it grow, shrink it, write to it, read from it. But after the handle gets closed, the file gets removed automatically by the file system.

These different policies of the to OSes you are using are the reason for your observation.