-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Lloyd Wood on 9/1/2008 4:29 AM: > but as foo.pdf is already open in the Windows Acrobat reader, nothing > happens. No error message is given. If I ls, I can still see foo.pdf. > > Later, I close foo.pdf in Reader. foo.pdf then immediately and silently > vanishes from the file system.
Yes, this is Window's semantics for file deletion, when the file is currently open. > > I'm having trouble understanding what happens here. Does the rm for > foo.pdf get queued up somewhere, but is blocked by Acrobat's use? Is > this the most sensible behaviour? No less sensible than any of Microsoft's other implementation decisions. Cygwin 1.7.0 will go to greater lengths to try to hide this wart, by moving open files to the recycle bin so that ls no longer sees an unlinked file, and so that rmdir no longer complains about non-empty directories, so that the behavior is closer to Linux. But it is just that - workarounds to a different implementation, due to a different OS. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAki73LYACgkQ84KuGfSFAYA7rQCfQBiq/IbFuIC/uCunOKY8cYUJ Pv0AoNPV8NviaYEQgJfg4hh89Z3Zhpcv =wSfP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/
