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Re: Weird directories on Windows share when using rm to delete a directory


On Jul  5 23:00, Slide wrote:
> <snip>
> 
> > This funtionality wasn't available in 1.5, so, yes, this would only
> > have started with 1.7.
> >
> > So it seems that these netapp drives somehow don't understand the
> > entirely normal FileDispositionInformation method, or they ignore it for
> > some unknown reason.
> >
> > Unfortunately the strace from your OP isn't helpful since it
> > only contains the deletion of a single file. ÂWhat would help is
> > an strace of a rmdir or rm -rf(*) of a directory which then creates
> > one of those temporary directories. ÂThere are lots of potential
> > debug messages wqhich might sched a light here.
> >
> >
> > Corinna
> >
> > (*) If possible with not more than a single file in the dir, so that
> > Â Âthe strace doesn't become too big.
> >
> 
> The directory structure is like the following:
> 
> //share/directory/path/to/dir/hammer.ba_
> 
> Command is "rm -rf //share/directory/path/to/dir"

Thanks.  The strace doesn't help, though.  The rmdir of foo works
without any problem, so not even a single debug output is generated.

I have an idea or two what could be the problem of the netapp drive,
but that requires testing with a Cygwin DLL with enhanced debug output
in the unlink/rmdir functionality.

Would you mind to play guinea pig if I send you the link to such a
DLL via PM?


Thanks,
Corinna

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