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Re: Infinite Loop In "rm -fr" When Busy File Encountered
- From: "Chris January" <chris at atomice dot net>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 18:26:09 +0100
- Subject: Re: Infinite Loop In "rm -fr" When Busy File Encountered
- References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020405195515.026fbb28@pop3.cris.com>
> Greetings,
>
> I have encountered a problem in "rm" when used with the "-f" and "-r"
> options and a busy and hence unremovable file is encountered.
>
> When "rm -fr" encounters a busy and hence unremovable file, it goes into
an
> infinite loop consuming as much CPU time as it can get until it is
forcibly
> terminated. The error is completely repeatable as long as the file remains
> busy by virtue of being open in another program.
>
> The file system is NTFS and the mount is binmode. The system is Windows
> 2000 Pro with SP2 and security patches installed.
>
> This is an up-to-date Cygwin installation that is exhibiting no other
> anomalous behavior.
>
> In reference to the attached "cygcheck -rs" output, this happened on "C:"
> "/cygdrive/c" (reached via a symlink "/c -> /cygdrive/c").
I tried exhaustively to reproduce this (cygwin1.dll v1.3.10), but failed.
Chris
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