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On Mon, 2 Feb 2026 at 17:04, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
<cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
>
> On Feb  2 14:47, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote:
> > On Mon, 2 Feb 2026 at 14:40, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
> > <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Feb  2 13:24, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote:
> > > > I'm not sure whether the Cygwin code is correct. I did a peek with a
> > > > kernel debugger, and I see that FILE_RENAME_INFORMATION.RootDirectory
> > > > is always NULL if a file gets renamed to .cyg000000000xxxx. But if I
> > > > try that with NTFS or SMB, the NtSetInformationFile() to set
> > > > FileRenameInformation always fails.
> > >
> > > Your testcase is incorrect, unfortunately.
> > >
> > > >     fri->FileNameLength = (wcslen(dstfile)+1)*sizeof(wchar_t);
> > >
> > > For NT file paths, never count the trailing \0 to the length:
> > >
> > >       fri->FileNameLength = wcslen(dstfile) * sizeof (WCHAR);
> > >
> > > With that, your testcase works fine for me.
> > >
> > > On which filesystem did you see the problem?
> >
> > Windows NFSv3 client (the builtin one, not the newer NFSv4.1 one).
>
> The files in question are actually files which got renamed while
> in use.  I don't know another way to implement removing in-use files
> on remote file systems not supporting delete POSIX semantics.  If
> somebody has a brilliant idea, https://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC.

Did you see that these are directories, not files? How does that happen?

Dan
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