On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 01:50:59PM -0700, TomL wrote: > > Based on the idea that its a file locking problem, I ran "handle" from > sysinternals, and it showed up as an open filehandle in an explorer.exe > process. I terminated the process, and all is well. > > I don't understand how it got into that state yet, but I'm closer. Thanks > for the hints.
You're a lifesaver ! I get these a lot - sometimes several times a day with vim swap files. It happens when I run vim over an SSH or telnet session and the session crashes. After that vim gives me its warning whenever I try to edit that file until I delete swap file, which I can't. The only advice I could find was to reboot (which is pretty good advice for running Windows) which gets annoying on bad network days. Now I can run 'handle', then 'ps', cross ref the PID from cygwin to windows, and kill vim - much preferable to a reboot. Thanks. Tom -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
