Can't rm file, but no error message

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 10/05/2009 07:16 AM, Ronald wrote:
> Why don't I get an error message here?
>
> $ ls -l test.zip
> -rwx------+ 1 Administrators ???????? 1153454 Oct  5 12:49 test.zip
> $ rm test.zip
> $ echo $?
> 0
> $ ls -l test.zip
> -rwx------+ 1 Administrators ???????? 1153454 Oct  5 12:49 test.zip
>
> Obviously the file wasn't removed, but rm does not give any error message.
> Any idea why?

Because something still has a handle to it so it remains in the file system
until the remaining handles are released.  This is Windows "Delete On Close"
functionality, which is the closest analogue to Linux/Unix/POSIX behavior of 
deleting
an open file.  Get 'handle.exe' or 'procexp.exe' from sysinternals.com to 
find out
who has handles still.

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