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>]

Thanks Randall!

Larry

Original Message:
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From: Randall R Schulz rrschulz@cris.com
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 09:03:16 -0800
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Bug in rm -r with locked files


Larry,

Typo alert. It's <http://www.sysinternals.com/>.

Lots of good information and utilities there!

Randall Schulz


At 08:35 2003-01-21, lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com wrote:
>You may find the 'handle' utility from www.sysinternal.com a handy (no pun 
>intended :-) ) tool for determining which files are opened by which 
>processes.  This might help you track down what's locking files on you.
>
>In terms of the 'vim' issue, it piqued my interest enough that I did some 
>investigation.  Running Cygwin 1.3.17-1, 1.3.18-1, and today's snapshot 
>all reproduced the hang for me.  So I took a simple step and ran strace on 
>the 'rm' process.  It showed an error code of 5 (Access is denied.) for 
>'C:\tmp\foo\.bar.swp'.  Conclusion: the problem I see here has to do with 
>'vim' locking the recovery file. Adding '-n' to the flags for 'vim' 
>removed the hang.  Corinna, any chance you have your recovery file 
>directories set to something that doesn't include '.'?  If that explains 
>the difference in behavior we're seeing, then I think we'll have solved 
>one mystery and at least have a workaround to the problem.
>
>Larry


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