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Hi all, I've been bitten lately by rm -rf on a directory occasionally hanging. After some fooling around, I've come up with a simple way of reproducing the problem. I'm currently using 1.3.12 of the DLL on Windows 2000 Professional SP2. Results from 'cygcheck -s -v -r' are attached. Way to reproduce is to create a directory (say foo, in your home dir) and place a largish file in that (I've been using 'od -c /bin/gcc.exe > foo/foo.txt' to produce it, but anything would do). Then in another shell window, keep that file open. I do this by using 'less foo/foo.txt' under bash, or 'type foo\foo.txt | more' under cmd.exe. Then try to do an 'rm -rf foo' in the original shell window. The rm will hang. I can kill it ok with a ^C, or I can quit out of the "less" in the other window, at which point the "rm" will proceed and succeed. I had a bit of a poke around with strace and it seems that "rm" is stuck in a loop, continually reading the contents of directory "foo". I looked in the "rm" sources, but couldn't really see an obvious reason for this to occur, so thought I'd better seek some more help. I've attached some bzip2'ed strace runs. One shows the results of killing the rm with a ^c, the other shows the results of rm completing after I close foo/foo.txt by quitting the less. Any help here would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Regards M.Beach
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