RE: Bug in rm -r with locked files

["lhall at pop dot ma dot ultranet dot com" <lhall at pop dot ma dot ultranet dot com>]

OK.  Have you investigated the use of tools I suggested to help you track 
down which utilities are causing you the problem(s)?  That would be a good
start to narrowing down your issue into something this list can discuss,
assuming that's where you'd like to take this.  

Of course, you're always welcome to review the current implementation of 
unlink() to see if you can suggest improvements.  It's worthwhile though 
to review past discussions on this issue to make sure you don't end up 
just rehashing old threads.  But new ideas are always welcome, particularly
if they solve some long-standing problems! ;-)

Larry 

Original Message:
-----------------
From:  Brian.Kelly@empireblue.com
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 14:59:23 -0500
To: shankar@cotagesoft.com, maxb@ukf.net, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: RE: Bug in rm -r with locked files



Well - even so ....  "my" problem remains ....  The scripts that I have are
written to work cross-platform,
and because I can't use  rm -rf  when telneting to a cygwin box with an
automated telnet/ssh script,
I have to do this nonsense:

if ($telnet_handle->{$hostlabel}->{OS} eq 'cygwin') {
    ($stdout,$stderr)=$telnet_handle->{_cmd_handle}->cmd("cmd /c del /s
$dir");
} else {
    ($stdout,$stderr)=$telnet_handle->{_cmd_handle}->cmd("cmd /c rm -r
$dir");
}

I'd rather not have to do this!!

Brian





"Shankar Unni" <shankar@cotagesoft.com>@cygwin.com on 01/21/2003 02:47:54
PM

Sent by:    cygwin-owner@cygwin.com


To:    "'Max Bowsher'" <maxb@ukf.net>, cygwin@cygwin.com
cc:     (bcc: Brian Kelly/WTC1/Empire)

Subject:    RE: Bug in rm -r with locked files


Max corrected me:

> No. The thing that rm -rf gets stuck on is vim .swp recovery file.

Ah. Sorry. Should have straced the thing before shooting off.


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