Am 10.12.2010 19:26, schrieb Christopher Faylor: > On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 06:49:09PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote: >>Greetings, >> >>I see that "rm -rf" on a directory sometimes fails, like here: >> >>|>>> Creating source package >>| fetchmail-6.3.19-1.cygport >>| fetchmail-6.3.19-1.cygwin.patch >>| fetchmail-6.3.19.tar.bz2 >>|>>> Removing work directory in 5 seconds... >>|>>> Removing work directory NOW. >>| rm: cannot remove `/usr/src/fetchmail-6.3.19-1/inst/usr/share/locale/da': >>Directory not empty >>| Command exited with non-zero status 1 >> >>Alternatively, you get "...in use" for an error, however, in this case, it >>appears that the corresponding syscall triggered by rm(1) had already returned >>but the file wasn't fully removed from the directory yet. >> >>I've seen this happen for a while now. This happens sporadically, and >>retrying >>the operation usually succeeds, so it matters less in an interactive shell. >>However, this often breaks scripts, in this case, cygport. >> >>This looks like either a premature return from a syscall or libcall, or like a >>genuine race in the system. >> >>In case it matters, this is >>- Windows 7 Prof. 32-bit German >>- with Sophos Endpoint Security and Control ver. 9 and >>- Microsoft Windows Defender. >>- coreutils 8.5-2 >>- uname -a: >> CYGWIN_NT-6.1 somehost 1.7.7(0.230/5/3) 2010-08-31 09:58 i686 Cygwin >> >> >>Has anyone seen similar things? > > Yes and you seem to have nailed the problem - it happens when a virus checker > hooks into a syscall and allows it to return before completion. I don't think > we want to modify Cygwin to not trust success return values from system calls.
Well, I don't know a solution but I think this is unexpected behaviour. You can delete thousands of files and dirs without bad things happening, but once in a while it fails. What file of the many (cvsweb isn't really amenable to searches ;-)) implements unlink()? -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
