Dear Cygwin Team and Users,
since a few months I have issues deleting cygwin installations. In some
cases randomly the /usr/share/fonts/microsoft folder and the TTF files
in it remain. According to DOS dir the folder contains junctions to TTF
files - not sure how this is possible - afaik a junction is for folders.
But what I get is this:
C:\ci\cygwin64_21081_16603\usr\share\fonts\microsoft>dir
Volume in drive C is SYSTEM
Volume Serial Number is 70C2-07FA
Directory of C:\ci\cygwin64_21081_16603\usr\share\fonts\test
02/07/2020 13:52 <DIR> .
02/07/2020 13:52 <DIR> ..
01/07/2020 11:47 <JUNCTION> ahronbd.ttf [...]
01/07/2020 11:47 <JUNCTION> andlso.ttf [...]
01/07/2020 11:47 <JUNCTION> angsa.ttf [...]
01/07/2020 11:47 <JUNCTION> angsab.ttf [...]
01/07/2020 11:47 <JUNCTION> angsai.ttf [...]
01/07/2020 11:47 <JUNCTION> angsau.ttf [...]
01/07/2020 11:47 <JUNCTION> angsaub.ttf [...]
01/07/2020 11:47 <JUNCTION> angsaui.ttf [...]
01/07/2020 11:47 <JUNCTION> angsauz.ttf [...]
:
Interesting is that this does not happen always. I am working on a open
source project and our CI installs and removes cygwin about 100 times a
day. I see this issue about 20 times per month - distributed over all of
our CI runners. Maybe Windows gives the TTF file some special handling
every now and again, but I checked the registry and there is nothing
pointing to this cygwin folder, except the cygwin installation registry.
I couldn't find any method to remove these files. I made sure I have
delete rights and that nobody has a lock on these files, but still
whatever I tried (Explorer, cygwin admin console, DOS admin console,
reboot a few times, chkdsk, google) failed.
If you have an idea that could help me to delete these files reliably
and/or avoid this situation, it would help me a lot!
Best regards,
Michael
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