Mail Archives: cygwin/2010/12/12/10:20:23
On Dec 12 16:14, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Am 12.12.2010 16:12, schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
> > On Dec 12 15:16, Matthias Andree wrote:
> >> Am 12.12.2010 13:42, schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
> >>
> >> > So, what cygwin tries to do in the first place is to move files in use
> >> > into the recycle bin. However, on Windows you need DELETE access rights
> >> > to be able to do so. And, this doesn't work for remote drives. On
> >> > remote drives we can only try to rename the file to some temporary
> >> > filename and hope for the best. Afterwards Cygwin sets the delete
> >> > dispostion flag and returns success if setting the dispostion flag
> >> > succeeded. After all, that's the maximum possible on Windows, and for
> >> > all we can tell the file has been deleted. The fact that the directory
> >> > entry lingers until the last handle to the file has been closed is
> >> > something Cygwin has no control over.
> >>
> >> Well, there's the problem.
> >
> > No, it's not, at least not on local drives. Read again. Files and
> > directories in use are moved into the bin. If that fails, unlink/rmdir
> > fails.
>
> Then I wonder what makes my cygport (or the rm command it uses) fail as it
> removes the workdir...
I guess debugging would sched a light...
Corinna
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