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Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 21:45:47 +0200
From: Reini Urban <rurban AT x-ray DOT at>
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Subject: Re: rm prints no errmsg if _unlink fails with errno 32
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Pierre A. Humblet schrieb:
> On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 09:08:47PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote:
>>Reini Urban schrieb:
>>
>>>(latest cygwin release 1.5.10-3 and fileutils-4.1-2)
>>>rm printed no errmsg if _unlink failed with errno 32.
>>
>>Pierre ping?
>>
>>Should I patch it by myself? But I don't know where.
>>The syscall fails, but is not responsible for any errormessage to STDERR.
>>And rm gets a wrong status code, because the delete was queued, and 
>>fails later.
>>
>>I'd rather prefer _unlink() returning an errcode on a sharing violation.
> 
> 
> Reini,
> 
> AFAICS, a better subject line for your message would be
> "unlink succeeds when DeleteFile reports Windows Error 32"
> 
> ~> net helpmsg 32
> The process cannot access the file because
> it is being used by another process.
> 
> That's a Windows feature, not present in Unix. 
> The Cygwin behavior that you see has been in effect for years,
> well before I got involved with Cygwin. Queueing the delete
> is not perfect, but it is usually better than returning an error.
> 
> You are surely free to modify cygwin to have unlink return an
> error in that case.

Ok, I'll try to live (workaround) with that.
-- 
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/


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