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diff --git a/bfd/cache.c b/bfd/cache.c
index ad3140e1ed7..91b6c610854 100644
--- a/bfd/cache.c
+++ b/bfd/cache.c
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
/* BFD library -- caching of file descriptors.
- Copyright 1990, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Copyright 1990, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 1996, 2000
+ Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Hacked by Steve Chamberlain of Cygnus Support (steve@cygnus.com).
This file is part of BFD, the Binary File Descriptor library.
@@ -300,10 +301,17 @@ bfd_open_file (abfd)
So we unlink the output file if and only if it has
non-zero size. */
+#ifndef __MSDOS__
+ /* Don't do this for MSDOS: it doesn't care about overwriting
+ a running binary, but if this file is already open by
+ another BFD, we will be in deep trouble if we delete an
+ open file. In fact, objdump does just that if invoked with
+ the --info option. */
struct stat s;
if (stat (abfd->filename, &s) == 0 && s.st_size != 0)
unlink (abfd->filename);
+#endif
abfd->iostream = (PTR) fopen (abfd->filename, FOPEN_WB);
abfd->opened_once = true;
}