Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 00:13:17 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: Cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: rm -rf dir hangs on SAMBA drive if dir/foo is read-only. Message-ID: <20010807001317.C25338@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: Cygwin@cygwin.com References: <002a01c0e2ab$be56f9f0$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> <002b01c0e2ae$90548920$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> <20010522185651.A25000@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <20010522185651.A25000@redhat.com>; from cgf@redhat.com on Tue, May 22, 2001 at 06:56:51PM -0400 On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 06:56:51PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 03:01:33PM +0400, Andrej Borsenkow wrote: >>Looks like rm problem - it just loops. It is with fileutils-4.0-3: >> >>mw1g017@MW1G17C /mnt/bor/tmp/tst >>$ 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/