Corinna Vinschen skrev 2012-02-03 17:17: > On Feb 3 17:02, Peter Rosin wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I have this annoying leftover file from a automake testsuite run. >> I don't know if it was created by an MSYS process or a Cygwin >> process, but I can't get rid of it. I can't take ownership of >> it either, not even as admin. I haven't tried stopping all >> MSYS/Cygwin processes yet, nor rebooting, but I'd rather not. >> >> Any help with that is appreciated. No, not rebooting :-) >> >> However, that is not really why I'm writing, I'm writing to >> report the following bug related to the above file. >> >> $ uname -a >> CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 peda-pc 1.7.10s(0.259/5/3) 20120123 00:15:09 i686 Cygwin >> $ ls -l aclibobj.log-t >> -rw-r----- 1 ???????? ???????? 2113 Jan 31 16:09 aclibobj.log-t >> $ rm aclibobj.log-t; echo $? >> rm: remove write-protected regular file `aclibobj.log-t'? yes >> 0 > > Send an strace of this, please. One reason that rm (better: unlink(2)) > reports success is if the file is still in use by another process but > it's already marked as "delete pending" in the OS. This should only > occur if a non-Cygwin process is still holding a handle to the file.
I found, using process explorer, a suspended MSYS expr process which have CWD c:\Cygwin\home\peda\automake\tests\aclibobj.dir\ which is probably related. I will not (try to) touch that until you say that this is all as it should be and don't need me to test anything. Cheers, Peter -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
