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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/*"<BR>
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On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 06:50, Gael Mulat wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#050c87" SIZE="3"><I> 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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