X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_MSGID_LONG40,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <2ca21dcc0901140524u165a01d5jcc88225f5778dc9d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:24:34 +0000 From: "Dave Korn" To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: rm seems to fail In-Reply-To: <496D5AEC.1000504@cygwin.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <5520d94f0901130852l310a9dfdk9821c26458d8d5e AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> <5520d94f0901131057o3cbb3915h95b824942d95be6c AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> <5520d94f0901131152u3a3f8ae3y64654d175b5b37a4 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> <5520d94f0901131506i2bfbfcdcv8a79371f9e0d870a AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> <496D4140 DOT 7050805 AT cygwin DOT com> <5520d94f0901131835y6576031fp8b1af1d0da7c1ebd AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> <496D5AEC DOT 1000504 AT cygwin DOT com> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > greenup greenup wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >>> greenup greenup wrote: >>>> broken again/still. >>>> >>>> On 1/13/09, Mark J. Reed wrote: >>> Any luck on the BLODA front? >>> >> Afraid I don't know BLODA, but disabling the virus scanner for a few >> minutes didn't work. > > > > Certainly sounds like something is locking that file. Perhaps Process > Explorer > or Handle > can help you figure out who might be doing this. Indeed. It's probably also now getting worth running the 'rm' under strace, and perhaps even doing so while simultaneously logging it in ProcessMonitor so that we can see what's going on at the API level. cheers, DaveK -- 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/