On Aug 23, 2005, at 8:34 AM, dpk wrote:
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Fafa Hafiz Krantz wrote:
hello!
how come *nothing* happens when i rm -rf directory/?
it just won't move ...
top from another terminal tells me:
55272 root 116 0 14396K 13768K RUN 0:27 36.13% 35.40% rm
what? the directory/ only contains a .maildir/, a .muttrc and an
empty directory
it's not an immutable flag that has been set,
chflags -R nouchg directory/ stands equally still to rm -rf
It's probably busy calculating the list of directory entries to
remove. If
you have /proc mounted try:
truss -p 55272
to see what it is doing. If you don't, and you have KTRACE in your
kernel,
you can try:
ktrace -i -d -p 55272
kdump -l
to monitor the process.
Do you have any open filehandles as well in that directory? I
could see this as being a problem if a program is keeping one or more
files open in a directory and in fact the program is blocking rm -rf
from completing its task. However, I've never seen Unix do this
before; this would instead be a problem inherent of Windows.
-Garrett
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