This is the mail archive of the
cygwin
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: 1.7.7: rm -rf sometimes fails - race condition?
Am 12.12.2010 16:12, schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
> On Dec 12 15:16, Matthias Andree wrote:
>> Am 12.12.2010 13:42, schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
>>
>> > So, what cygwin tries to do in the first place is to move files in use
>> > into the recycle bin. However, on Windows you need DELETE access rights
>> > to be able to do so. And, this doesn't work for remote drives. On
>> > remote drives we can only try to rename the file to some temporary
>> > filename and hope for the best. Afterwards Cygwin sets the delete
>> > dispostion flag and returns success if setting the dispostion flag
>> > succeeded. After all, that's the maximum possible on Windows, and for
>> > all we can tell the file has been deleted. The fact that the directory
>> > entry lingers until the last handle to the file has been closed is
>> > something Cygwin has no control over.
>>
>> Well, there's the problem.
>
> No, it's not, at least not on local drives. Read again. Files and
> directories in use are moved into the bin. If that fails, unlink/rmdir
> fails.
Then I wonder what makes my cygport (or the rm command it uses) fail as it
removes the workdir...
--
Matthias Andree
--
Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple