Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <003801c1dd90$252f4ad0$0100a8c0@advent02> From: "Chris January" To: References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020405195515.026fbb28@pop3.cris.com> Subject: Re: Infinite Loop In "rm -fr" When Busy File Encountered Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 18:26:09 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 > Greetings, > > I have encountered a problem in "rm" when used with the "-f" and "-r" > options and a busy and hence unremovable file is encountered. > > When "rm -fr" encounters a busy and hence unremovable file, it goes into an > infinite loop consuming as much CPU time as it can get until it is forcibly > terminated. The error is completely repeatable as long as the file remains > busy by virtue of being open in another program. > > The file system is NTFS and the mount is binmode. The system is Windows > 2000 Pro with SP2 and security patches installed. > > This is an up-to-date Cygwin installation that is exhibiting no other > anomalous behavior. > > In reference to the attached "cygcheck -rs" output, this happened on "C:" > "/cygdrive/c" (reached via a symlink "/c -> /cygdrive/c"). I tried exhaustively to reproduce this (cygwin1.dll v1.3.10), but failed. Chris -- 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/