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On Dec 12 15:16, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Am 12.12.2010 13:42, schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
> 
> > So, what cygwin tries to do in the first place is to move files in use
> > into the recycle bin.  However, on Windows you need DELETE access rights
> > to be able to do so.  And, this doesn't work for remote drives.  On
> > remote drives we can only try to rename the file to some temporary
> > filename and hope for the best.  Afterwards Cygwin sets the delete
> > dispostion flag and returns success if setting the dispostion flag
> > succeeded.  After all, that's the maximum possible on Windows, and for
> > all we can tell the file has been deleted.  The fact that the directory
> > entry lingers until the last handle to the file has been closed is
> > something Cygwin has no control over.
> 
> Well, there's the problem.

No, it's not, at least not on local drives.  Read again.  Files and
directories in use are moved into the bin.  If that fails, unlink/rmdir
fails.


Corinna

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