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From: "Carlo Florendo" <carlo AT astra DOT ph>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Bug in rm -r with locked files
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 09:45:56 +0900
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What cygwin, vi, and fileutils versions are you using?  In my case, I
simulated the test case but rm returned immediately with

rm: cannot remove `/tmp/direx/a.swp': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove directory `/tmp/direx': Directory not empty

I'm using vim 5.8.9, fileutils 4.1, and cygwin 1.3.15-1

Regards,

Carlo
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Carlo Florendo
Astra Philippines Inc.
email: carlo AT astra DOT ph
URL: http://www.astra.ph


----- Original Message -----
From: David Means
To: Gael Mulat
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 9:35 PM
Subject: Re: Bug in rm -r with locked files


Yep, I concur.  If windows has a lock on the file, rm just hangs.  I've seen
it hang on directories when doing an 'rm -rf yada/*"

On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 06:50, Gael Mulat wrote:
    Hi,

    This is a bug report about rm (package fileutils, version 4.1-1) on W2K.

    Test case: take 2 cygwin shells.
shell 1:
    mkdir /tmp/directory
    vi /tmp/directory/file

shell 2:
    /bin/rm -rf /tmp/directory

    The shell2 doesn't manage to remove the directory and goes into an
infinite loop, taking 100% of the CPU.
    All is then OK if we go out of vi in the shell1.

    Doing the same thing (deleting the directory) directly in Windows
produces an error message: "cannot delete directory: Access is denied.
The source file may be in use" and we can notice in the directory a file
named .file.swp that is also visible under Cygwin with ls -la.

    The example I have just given uses vi, but it is the same with all
processes that open the file, as W2K puts a lock on it.

Gael Mulat






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