From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18913 invoked by alias); 14 Jan 2009 13:25:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 18896 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Jan 2009 13:25:08 -0000 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 Received: from mail-bw0-f16.google.com (HELO mail-bw0-f16.google.com) (209.85.218.16) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:24:38 +0000 Received: by bwz9 with SMTP id 9so1474914bwz.2 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:24:35 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.102.219.8 with SMTP id r8mr75024mug.10.1231939474928; Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:24:34 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.103.5.15 with HTTP; Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:24:34 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <2ca21dcc0901140524u165a01d5jcc88225f5778dc9d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:05:00 -0000 From: "Dave Korn" To: cygwin@cygwin.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@mail.gmail.com> <5520d94f0901131057o3cbb3915h95b824942d95be6c@mail.gmail.com> <5520d94f0901131152u3a3f8ae3y64654d175b5b37a4@mail.gmail.com> <5520d94f0901131506i2bfbfcdcv8a79371f9e0d870a@mail.gmail.com> <496D4140.7050805@cygwin.com> <5520d94f0901131835y6576031fp8b1af1d0da7c1ebd@mail.gmail.com> <496D5AEC.1000504@cygwin.com> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2009-01/txt/msg00424.txt.bz2 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/