Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: Joe Buehler Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin Subject: Re: infinite loop in rm -fr (revisited) Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 15:39:47 -0400 Lines: 22 Message-ID: <3D220183.50700@hekimian.com> References: <3D21F96C DOT 50603 AT hekimian DOT com> <00d001c221fe$e5b242f0$0100a8c0 AT advent02> NNTP-Posting-Host: hekimian.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1025638756 10469 206.205.138.10 (2 Jul 2002 19:39:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet AT main DOT gmane DOT org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 19:39:16 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Chris January wrote: >>#!/bin/bash >>trap "cd /; rm-orig -fr /tmp/xxx.dir" 0 >>mkdir /tmp/xxx.dir >>exec >/tmp/xxx.dir/info > I tried to look into this and typed: > strace bash -c ./loop > which prompty resulted in bash segfaulting. :((( Not that it has anything to do with your segfault, probably, but be aware of the typo in my script above: It should be "rm -fr", not "rm-orig -fr". That was something related to my debugging. I know for sure that Windows NT does not like deleting files that are open, so I would guess that there is a basic difference here with UNIX. It would be nice to find a workaround. Joe Buehler -- 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/