X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-7.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4EA56EE5.7060204@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 07:57:57 -0600 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.23) Gecko/20110928 Fedora/3.1.15-1.fc14 Lightning/1.0b3pre Mnenhy/0.8.4 Thunderbird/3.1.15 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jim Meyering CC: cygwin@cygwin.com, bug-gnulib , 9813@debbugs.gnu.org Subject: Re: rm -rf calls rmdir() prior to close(), which can fail References: <4EA05C9C.1070809@redhat.com> <87ipnfe8fl.fsf@rho.meyering.net> <87d3dmerh9.fsf@rho.meyering.net> <8739eiepgi.fsf@rho.meyering.net> In-Reply-To: <8739eiepgi.fsf@rho.meyering.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed 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 On 10/24/2011 02:58 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: > ** Bug fixes > > + rm -rf DIR would fail with "Device or resource busy" on Cygwin with NWFS > + and NcFsd file systems. This did not affect Unix/Linux-based kernels. > + [bug introduced in coreutils-7.0, when rm began using fts] rm didn't use fts() until coreutils 8.0 (the cygwin testing proved that coreutils 7.0 did not suffer from the problem). See also the news for 8.13 mentioning an rm regression introduced by fts() in 8.0. -- Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org -- 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