Subject: Bug in rm -r with locked files
From: Gael Mulat <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 12:50:18 +0100

Hi,

    This is a bug report about rm (package fileutils, version 4.1-1) on W2K.

    Test case: take 2 cygwin shells.
shell 1:
    mkdir /tmp/directory
    vi /tmp/directory/file

shell 2:
    /bin/rm -rf /tmp/directory

    The shell2 doesn't manage to remove the directory and goes into an 
infinite loop, taking 100% of the CPU.
    All is then OK if we go out of vi in the shell1.

    Doing the same thing (deleting the directory) directly in Windows 
produces an error message: "cannot delete directory: Access is denied. 
The source file may be in use" and we can notice in the directory a file 
named .file.swp that is also visible under Cygwin with ls -la.

    The example I have just given uses vi, but it is the same with all 
processes that open the file, as W2K puts a lock on it.

Gael Mulat

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