Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: Joe Buehler Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin Subject: infinite loop in rm -fr (revisited) Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 15:05:16 -0400 Lines: 19 Message-ID: <3D21F96C.50603@hekimian.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hekimian.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1025636685 5755 206.205.138.10 (2 Jul 2002 19:04:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 19:04:45 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en There was a thread back in April on this topic and I would like to know whether it was ever resolved. The following script will demonstrate the infinite loop: #!/bin/bash trap "cd /; rm-orig -fr /tmp/xxx.dir" 0 mkdir /tmp/xxx.dir exec >/tmp/xxx.dir/info The problem appears to be that "info" stays in the directory even though it has been deleted (presumably because the script has the file open). Seems like the general solution is to move the file elsewhere before deleting it. Perhaps to a reserved directory on the root of the drive? Joe Buehler -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/