Hi Sisyphus, Tuesday, September 6, 2005, 5:38:38 PM, you wrote:
S> Indeed I do .... problems like this always arise from the "other" change S> that one has made (ie the change that one has forgotten about :-) Definitely been there :-] While not directly in response to your question, I vote for using rmtree in File::Path (a core module - at least in 5.8.*) http://search.cpan.org/~nwclark/perl-5.8.7/lib/File/Path.pm eval { rmtree($dir) }; if ($@) { print "Could not delete $dir: $@"; } Except for the race condition issue with other processes altering files and directories below the root directory (which does not seem to be an issue in your situation), it's more portable, does not use an outside process, and allows you to actually remove a list of directories in one call. -- Best regards, Christopher mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
