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From: Shankar Unni <shankar AT cotagesoft DOT com>
Subject: Re: Bug in rm -r with locked files
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 13:39:08 -0800
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Christopher Faylor wrote:

> It's not a completely intractable problem.  I think that someone (Chris
> January?) provided a workaround at one point.  "cygserver" could also
> provide a possible solution someday.

Right. I went back and re-read those archives. Interesting problem.

Now why was it important to do this "delayed remove" semantics? I.e. 
what (as alluded to by Robert Collins) would be broken if unlink simply 
returned EPERM or something like that if the file was busy? I didn't see 
any reference to that in the message threads.

(PS The archive search feature at http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/ seem to 
be broken - just about anything I type in the search box, including the 
word "cygwin", comes back with "no matches". So I apologize for not 
being able to do this research myself, and have to depend on those with 
long memories..)
--
Shankar.



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