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Re: rm problem: Directory not empty
- From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: antiskid56-cygwin at yahoo dot com, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 15:04:26 -0400
- Subject: Re: rm problem: Directory not empty
- References: <20050912182948.1005.qmail@web31501.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: Cygwin List <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
At 02:29 PM 9/12/2005, you wrote:
>I've also seen badly behaving windows programs, which refuse to "let go" of a
>directory once they have used a file in it, until the program is explicitly
>closed. This is most annoying, as you have to keep closing program windows
>until suddenly you guess right, the directory is freed, and can be deleted.
'handle.exe' from <sysinternals.com> is useful in determining the right app
to close in this case.
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