X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,TW_YG,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4D04E6E8.6060905@gmx.de> Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 16:14:48 +0100 From: Matthias Andree User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; de; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.7.7: rm -rf sometimes fails - race condition? References: <4D026815.4070606@gmx.de> <20101210182652.GA27615@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <3D3D7FA2B44B477A8342F96F72AE1BE7@multiplay.co.uk> <20101212124248.GB11357@calimero.vinschen.de> <4D04D92F.6000002@gmx.de> <20101212151228.GA8795@calimero.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20101212151228.GA8795@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Am 12.12.2010 16:12, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: > On Dec 12 15:16, Matthias Andree wrote: >> Am 12.12.2010 13:42, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: >> >> > So, what cygwin tries to do in the first place is to move files in use >> > into the recycle bin. However, on Windows you need DELETE access rights >> > to be able to do so. And, this doesn't work for remote drives. On >> > remote drives we can only try to rename the file to some temporary >> > filename and hope for the best. Afterwards Cygwin sets the delete >> > dispostion flag and returns success if setting the dispostion flag >> > succeeded. After all, that's the maximum possible on Windows, and for >> > all we can tell the file has been deleted. The fact that the directory >> > entry lingers until the last handle to the file has been closed is >> > something Cygwin has no control over. >> >> Well, there's the problem. > > No, it's not, at least not on local drives. Read again. Files and > directories in use are moved into the bin. If that fails, unlink/rmdir > fails. Then I wonder what makes my cygport (or the rm command it uses) fail as it removes the workdir... -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple