X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <45B7F55F.6010201@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:10:07 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061221 Fedora/1.5.0.9-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: make keeps an open handle to a file, can't delete parent directory References: <45B7CCCF DOT 3030204 AT determina DOT com> In-Reply-To: <45B7CCCF.3030204@determina.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Alexander Sotirov wrote: > Hi, > > I am having a problem with GNU make 3.81 on cygwin 1.5.22. It looks like a > problem with cygwin and not make, but I am not sure exactly what's causing it. > > I reduced my makefile to a minimal testcase and attached it to this email. The > makefile creates a foo/bar/ directory and then tries to remove it with rm -rf > foo. The rm command successfully removes the 'bar' directory, but then fails to > remove 'foo' because it's not empty. Running ls on foo shows that there is a > 'bar' directory entry, it it doesn't have any ownership or timestamp information. > > The output from running make is shown below: > > asotirov AT deter-alex foo $ make > mkdir foo > mkdir foo/bar > asotirov AT deter-alex foo $ make clear > rm -rf foo > rm: cannot remove directory `foo': Directory not empty > make: [clear] Error 1 (ignored) > ls -la foo > ls: cannot access foo/bar: No such file or directory > total 0 > drwxr-xr-x+ 3 asotirov None 0 Jan 24 12:45 . > drwxr-xr-x+ 3 asotirov None 0 Jan 24 12:45 .. > ??????????? ? ? ? ? ? bar > make: *** [clear] Error 1 > > Once make terminates, the 'bar' directory entry disappears and we can delete the > foo directory. That's a Windowsism. You should see better results with a recent snapshot: It would be great if you tested your case with a snapshot and report back your findings. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/