Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com From: posting-list AT MailAndNews DOT com (Jari Aalto+mail.emacs) To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: Re: rm - access violation not counted in W2k Professional X-Sender-Info: Emacs resources http://tiny-tools.sourceforge.net/ http://home.eu.org/~jari/homepage.html. ICQ 'jari-aalto' 82313129 PGP 2.6.x keyid 47141D35 http://www.pgpi.net/ Keywords: file,use,patch,cygwin Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 01:19:11 +0300 Message-ID: Lines: 39 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/20.7 (i386-*-nt5.0.2195) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii | >If rm command is used on file which Win32 labels as "access violation", | >rm will not give any warnings, errors or even set the $? | > | >File is not removed. - correct - but it shuld give warning | > | >If I do the same in Explorer, a dialog pos up saying that some other | >process is using the file/directory. | > | >Jari | | | | I don't understand your reference to "file which Win32 labels as 'access | violation'" but it sounds to me like you're referring to a file which is | opened for exclusive use by some other program which Cygwin's 'rm' Yes. | then tries to remove. If this is the case, see from earlier today: | | http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-07/msg01774.html | | It covers the same topic in a different context. I see. So the file is scheduled, but this certainly is not intuitive and hits old time Unix user a bit. | If you feel something else should be done here, provide a patch. Keep | in mind though that not everyone is trying to use 'rm' interactively | though. I really think that a warning message should definitely be in place especially when $? does not indicate any more details. Where can I get rm sources and I'll see if I can produce a patch. Where do I send it? Are there any guidelines for patch? (I use Emacs ChangeLog) Jari -- 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/