Bug in rm -r with locked files
David Means
dmeans@the-means.net
Tue Jan 21 16:53:00 GMT 2003
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/*"
On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 06:50, Gael Mulat wrote:
> 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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