On 10/05/2009 07:16 AM, Ronald wrote:
Why don't I get an error message here?
$ ls -l test.zip
-rwx------+ 1 Administrators ???????? 1153454 Oct 5 12:49 test.zip
$ rm test.zip
$ echo $?
0
$ ls -l test.zip
-rwx------+ 1 Administrators ???????? 1153454 Oct 5 12:49 test.zip
Obviously the file wasn't removed, but rm does not give any error message.
Any idea why?
Because something still has a handle to it so it remains in the file system
until the remaining handles are released. This is Windows "Delete On Close"
functionality, which is the closest analogue to Linux/Unix/POSIX behavior of
deleting
an open file. Get 'handle.exe' or 'procexp.exe' from sysinternals.com to
find out
who has handles still.
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