Chris, At 09:26 2002-04-06, Chris January wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > I have encountered a problem in "rm" when used with the "-f" and "-r" > > options and a busy and hence unremovable file is encountered. > > > > When "rm -fr" encounters a busy and hence unremovable file, it goes into an > > infinite loop consuming as much CPU time as it can get until it is forcibly > > terminated. The error is completely repeatable as long as the file remains > > busy by virtue of being open in another program. > > > > The file system is NTFS and the mount is binmode. The system is Windows > > 2000 Pro with SP2 and security patches installed. > > > > This is an up-to-date Cygwin installation that is exhibiting no other > > anomalous behavior. > > > > In reference to the attached "cygcheck -rs" output, this happened on "C:" > > "/cygdrive/c" (reached via a symlink "/c -> /cygdrive/c"). > >I tried exhaustively to reproduce this (cygwin1.dll v1.3.10), but failed.
"Exhaustively?" In such little time? Please tell me what you tried. I believe when it happened to me the file triggering the problem was open for writing. Randall Schulz >Chris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
