X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_MSGID_LONG40,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <2ca21dcc0901140524u165a01d5jcc88225f5778dc9d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:24:34 +0000 From: "Dave Korn" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: rm seems to fail In-Reply-To: <496D5AEC.1000504@cygwin.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <5520d94f0901130852l310a9dfdk9821c26458d8d5e@mail.gmail.com> <5520d94f0901131057o3cbb3915h95b824942d95be6c@mail.gmail.com> <5520d94f0901131152u3a3f8ae3y64654d175b5b37a4@mail.gmail.com> <5520d94f0901131506i2bfbfcdcv8a79371f9e0d870a@mail.gmail.com> <496D4140.7050805@cygwin.com> <5520d94f0901131835y6576031fp8b1af1d0da7c1ebd@mail.gmail.com> <496D5AEC.1000504@cygwin.com> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > greenup greenup wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >>> greenup greenup wrote: >>>> broken again/still. >>>> >>>> On 1/13/09, Mark J. Reed wrote: >>> Any luck on the BLODA front? >>> >> Afraid I don't know BLODA, but disabling the virus scanner for a few >> minutes didn't work. > > > > Certainly sounds like something is locking that file. Perhaps Process > Explorer > or Handle > can help you figure out who might be doing this. Indeed. It's probably also now getting worth running the 'rm' under strace, and perhaps even doing so while simultaneously logging it in ProcessMonitor so that we can see what's going on at the API level. cheers, DaveK -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/