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Date:	Tue, 7 Aug 2001 00:13:17 -0400
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To:	Cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: rm -rf dir hangs on SAMBA drive if dir/foo is read-only.
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In-Reply-To:	<20010522185651.A25000@redhat.com>; from cgf@redhat.com on Tue, May 22, 2001 at 06:56:51PM -0400

On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 06:56:51PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 03:01:33PM +0400, Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
>>Looks like rm problem - it just loops. It is with fileutils-4.0-3:
>>
>>mw1g017 AT MW1G17C /mnt/bor/tmp/tst
>>$ rm -r bar
>>rm: remove write-protected file `bar/foo'? y
>>rm: remove write-protected file `bar/foo'? y
>>rm: remove write-protected file `bar/foo'? y
>>rm: remove write-protected file `bar/foo'? y
>>rm: remove write-protected file `bar/foo'? y
>>rm: remove write-protected file `bar/foo'? y
>>rm: remove write-protected file `bar/foo'? y
>>...
>
>Bleah.  This is apparently due to some "clever" code that I added to
>cygwin which attempts to deal with removing a file that is already
>opened by using the windows NT DELETE_ON_CLOSE facility.  It doesn't
>appear to work right on samba shares.  The CreateFile/CloseHandle
>works but the file is never deleted.
>
>I have to think about the best way to deal with this.

This should be fixed in the latest snapshots.

cgf

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