On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 11:56:40 +0100, "Philip Newton" <philip.new...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 8, 2008 11:48 AM, Daniel Pittman <dan...@rimspace.net> wrote: > > You know what I hate? I hate the way that people keep coming back to > > the idea of some sort of "make the filesystem a database" magic. > > > > You know what that would look like? MySQL. Oh, yeah, for sure, because > > people don't want their file storage telling them that they can't delete > > or rename a file for whatever reason. > > They don't? Then why do they use Windows? > > "Cannot delete this file; another application has it open". > > And I recently managed to get a file deleted(?) in such a hateful way > that it is now impossible to create a new directory entry in that > position with that name. So it's sort of gone (I can't see it any > more) but not completely (I can't create a new file with that name). Doesn't that have to do with the hidden files system attributes that windows uses? I have faint deja-vu feelings and remembrance that SysInternals had a utility for it to `fix' it. Lots of links for this here: http://www.mcse.ms/message1927853.htm -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using & porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, & 11.23, SuSE 10.1 & 10.2, AIX 5.2, and Cygwin. http://qa.perl.org http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
