From:	"Tim Van Holder" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
To:	"DJGPP-Workers" <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	Another quirk: unremovable files
Date:	Wed, 15 Aug 2001 19:54:44 +0200
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Odd this - if a DOS box crashes under DJGPP (say, as a result
of selector exhaustion), files that were open in that session
are unremovable by DJGPP tools.
The current autoconf testsuite is a huge shell script and can
no longer run to completion (it crashes the DOS box around
test number 140 of 157).  If I open a new DOS box after such
a crash, and run 'make clean' in the tests directory, rm
complains it cannot remove testsuite.log, at-stderr and
at-stdout, all files that were open during the testsuite run.
4DOS' (and presumably command.com's) 'del' deletes them without
a hitch.
Is this a bug in DJGPP or a quirk in DOS that 4DOS/command.com
work around?

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