Mail Archives: cygwin/2010/08/20/11:10:54
* Corinna Vinschen (Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:33:17 +0200)
> On Aug 20 16:21, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> > * Thorsten Kampe (Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:38:26 +0200)
> > > I reinstalled vim and got the exact same message again ("Unable to
> > > extract /usr/bin/vi -- the file is use."). A simultaneous process
> > > monitor log shows that CreateFile operations result in "DELETE PENDING"
> > > ("Desired Access: Read Control, Disposition: Open, Options: Open Reparse
> > > Point, Attributes: n/a, ShareMode: Read, Write, Delete, AllocationSize:
> > > n/a"). Clicking two times on Retry (without changing anything else)
> > > let's the installation continue.
> > >
> > > I ran Process Explorer and it looks like zsh has handles open to vi,
> > > vim, view and vimdiff - although these executables are definitely not
> > > running.
> >
> > Okay, coming closer (and getting weirder):
>
> Not weird at all. I could track this down to a point in Cygwin where
> it neglects to close a handle to a symlink when instructed to follow
> symlinks to their target. I checked in a patch. Please test the DLL
> I uploaded at
>
> http://cygwin.de/cygwin-ug-177/newer-cygwin1.dll.bz2
> (md5sum compressed 5eab6680538279206bf23c54244825d2)
> (md5sum uncompressed e4833a601edad1571a9c6e0352a8e381)
>
> which contains the fix. This should not leave the stray handles to
> vi, vim, etc in zsh. And the side-effect should be that setup.exe
> does not complain anymore in the original scenario.
Yes, the evil handles are gone.
Thanks, Thorsten
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