On Jul 4 11:15, Wolf Geldmacher wrote: > As an aside: > I also used to have some trouble with "rm -rf" of a directory > hierarchy failing more or less reproducibly (like: 80% of the > time) because files were presumably still "in use". Repeating > the command several times would succeed, though. > > Downgrading from cygwin1.dll/1.7.9.1 to cygwin1.dll/1.7.8.1 > seems to have solved that issue as well - still have to see > the first "retry to delete". > > This may or may not be related to the original report, as it also reeks > of a race condition during file/directory operations.
I can neither reproduce the tar problem, nor can I reprocude the rm problem. I tried this under 2008R2 which is basically the same as your W7-64 bit. I used local and remote drives to test the issue but to no avail. Are you sure this isn't a BLODA problem which is triggered by the changes in 1.7.9? I just took a look through the changes between 1.7.8 and 1.7.9, and the list of changes which affect filesystem access is pretty small: 2011-03-14 Corinna Vinschen <...> * fhandler_disk_file.cc (fhandler_base::fstat_by_handle): Only use file id as inode number if it masters the isgood_inode check. 2011-03-08 Corinna Vinschen <...> * fhandler.cc (fhandler_base::open): When creating a file on a filesystem supporting ACLs, create the file with WRITE_DAC access. Explain why. * fhandler_disk_file.cc (fhandler_disk_file::mkdir): Ditto for directories. * fhandler_socket.cc (fhandler_socket::bind): Ditto for sockets. * path.cc (symlink_worker): Ditto for symlinks. * security.cc (get_file_sd): Always call GetSecurityInfo for directories on XP and Server 2003. Improve comment to explain why. So, is it possible that the request for WRITE_DAC access in the call to NtCreateFile triggers some hiccup of your virus checker? It could easily explain both effects. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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