Re: rm -rf dir hangs on SAMBA drive if dir/foo is read-only.

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 03:01:33PM +0400, Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
>Looks like rm problem - it just loops. It is with fileutils-4.0-3:
>
>mw1g017@MW1G17C /mnt/bor/tmp/tst
>$ rm -r bar
>rm: remove write-protected file `bar/foo'? y
>rm: remove write-protected file `bar/foo'? y
>rm: remove write-protected file `bar/foo'? y
>rm: remove write-protected file `bar/foo'? y
>rm: remove write-protected file `bar/foo'? y
>rm: remove write-protected file `bar/foo'? y
>rm: remove write-protected file `bar/foo'? y
>...

Bleah.  This is apparently due to some "clever" code that I added to
cygwin which attempts to deal with removing a file that is already
opened by using the windows NT DELETE_ON_CLOSE facility.  It doesn't
appear to work right on samba shares.  The CreateFile/CloseHandle
works but the file is never deleted.

I have to think about the best way to deal with this.

cgf

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