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diff --git a/cmd/removebinary_windows.go b/cmd/removebinary_windows.go
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+// Copyright 2015 Matthew Holt and The Caddy Authors
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+package caddycmd
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"syscall"
+)
+
+// removeCaddyBinary removes the Caddy binary at the given path.
+//
+// On Windows, this uses a syscall to indirectly remove the file,
+// because otherwise we get an "Access is denied." error when trying
+// to delete the binary while Caddy is still running and performing
+// the upgrade. "cmd.exe /C" executes a command specified by the
+// following arguments, i.e. "del" which will run as a separate process,
+// which avoids the "Access is denied." error.
+func removeCaddyBinary(path string) error {
+	var sI syscall.StartupInfo
+	var pI syscall.ProcessInformation
+	argv := syscall.StringToUTF16Ptr(filepath.Join(os.Getenv("windir"), "system32", "cmd.exe") + " /C del " + path)
+	return syscall.CreateProcess(nil, argv, nil, nil, true, 0, nil, nil, &sI, &pI)
+}