Am 12.12.2010 16:12, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: > On Dec 12 15:16, Matthias Andree wrote: >> Am 12.12.2010 13:42, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: >> >> > So, what cygwin tries to do in the first place is to move files in use >> > into the recycle bin. However, on Windows you need DELETE access rights >> > to be able to do so. And, this doesn't work for remote drives. On >> > remote drives we can only try to rename the file to some temporary >> > filename and hope for the best. Afterwards Cygwin sets the delete >> > dispostion flag and returns success if setting the dispostion flag >> > succeeded. After all, that's the maximum possible on Windows, and for >> > all we can tell the file has been deleted. The fact that the directory >> > entry lingers until the last handle to the file has been closed is >> > something Cygwin has no control over. >> >> Well, there's the problem. > > No, it's not, at least not on local drives. Read again. Files and > directories in use are moved into the bin. If that fails, unlink/rmdir > fails.
Then I wonder what makes my cygport (or the rm command it uses) fail as it removes the workdir... -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
