1.7.7: rm -rf sometimes fails - race condition?

Warren Young warren@etr-usa.com
Fri Dec 10 21:21:00 GMT 2010


On 12/10/2010 11:26 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> - Windows 7 Prof. 32-bit German

[snip]

> it happens when a virus checker hooks into a syscall

I thought Windows 7 took away a lot of the features antimalware software 
was using to dirty-patch the kernel.  Is BLODA still as big a problem 
with Windows 7 as with past versions of Windows?

It could be that what I'm thinking of only applies to 64-bit Windows 7.

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