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Re: Unable to delete directory in Cygwin
On Jun 16 08:59, Brett Serkez wrote:
> So this brings me back to my original question, what is it in NTFS
> that provides Inode type functionality that Cygwin is leveraging?
This might sound far-fetched, but can you imagine that this is just
the way Microsoft implemented the file system? It doesn't allow to
remove a directory if *any* process has an open handle to the directory
or one of its children.
Corinna
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