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: <006e01c1dd98$582a01c0$0100a8c0@advent02> From: "Chris January" To: References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020406094553.02433da0@pop3.cris.com> Subject: Re: Infinite Loop In "rm -fr" When Busy File Encountered Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 19:24:51 +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 > Now I do this: > > % mkdir subdir > % java Writer subdir/target Now is the time > > > In a separate Cygwin window: > > % cd tstdir > % rm -fr subdir > > > And the symptom is manifest: rm sits there, churning away, awaiting its death at the hands of a merciless signal. What output do you get with: strace -fr subdir ? -- 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/