On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 12:50:18PM +0100, Gael Mulat wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is a bug report about rm (package fileutils, version 4.1-1) on W2K.
>
> Test case: take 2 cygwin shells.
> shell 1:
> mkdir /tmp/directory
> vi /tmp/directory/file
>
> shell 2:
> /bin/rm -rf /tmp/directory
>
> The shell2 doesn't manage to remove the directory and goes into an
> infinite loop, taking 100% of the CPU.
> All is then OK if we go out of vi in the shell1.
Which version of Cygwin and Vim are you using? I'm getting this:
shell 1:
mkdir /tmp/foo
vi /tmp/foo/bar
:w <= To create file `bar'
shell 2:
rm -rf /tmp/foo <= returns immediately, having foo removed.
Vim doesn't lock the file, so I wonder what you are discribing here.
Corinna
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