When I worked with Cygwin I discovered that Windows still locks files such that they can't be deleted. An example: I write a paper with LaTeX. When Adobe Reader has the PDF open, pdflatex fails. It's annoying because it's interrupting the workflow.<p>On Linux however, the file can be deleted. Processes which still have the inode can continue to use the file. This is used by log-rotate: rename the log file, and the server process continues to write to the renamed log file. Then restart the server process and a new log file is created.<p>This discrepance which Cygwin can't overcome led me to give up on Windows with Cygwin completely.<p>And now: Does the Windows Subsystem for Linux allow deleting locked files such that software like Adobe Reader believe they still hold on the file?