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Re: Bug in rm -r with locked files


Shankar Unni wrote:
> I don't think that was the primary issue.  The issue was that if a
> process is using a directory as its working directory (chdir()'ed into
> it), "rm -rf" goes into an infinite loop attempting to remove the
> directory (rather than print an error and move on).

No. The thing that rm -rf gets stuck on is vim .swp recovery file.

Max.


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