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> > So this brings me back to my original question, what is it in NTFS > > that provides Inode type functionality that Cygwin is leveraging? > > This might sound far-fetched, but can you imagine that this is just > the way Microsoft implemented the file system? It doesn't allow to > remove a directory if *any* process has an open handle to the directory > or one of its children. Absolutely, this is precisely my point! UNIX/Linux specifically allows for this not to be the case via the inode in the file system. I didn't think that Windows/NTFS allowed for this possibility. Christopher seemed to be indicating this was not the case and I was trying to understand. So this is clear, the original script will never work on Cygwin because it is reliant upon NTFS which doesn't support this functionality. I would also point out that this functionality might not work under Linux if the underlying file system isn't inode based. For instance one can mount a FAT/FAT32 file system and the script would fail in that case also. The original script worked based on file system functionality, not a particular OS. Thanks! Brett -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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