On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 11:03:30 +0100, wrote:
Off-thread?
Deleting undeletable Nul files
There is a form of MSDOS DEL where you must enter the full path
DEL \\.\c:\somedir\nul
or use delinvfile.exe (google for this utility)
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Original Message
>From: James R. Phillips
>Sent: 12 September 2005 19:30
Sorry that this is off-topic, but it comes up often enough in the context
of this general discussion to be worth mentioning.
> I've also seen badly behaving windows programs, which refuse to "let go"
> of a directo
Larry Hall wrote:
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 suddenl
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,
Brian Dessent wrote:
>Any programs still using the file will continue to do so
>obliviously, until the last open handle is closed at which point the
>inode is deleted and the file is actually gone. This allows the system
>to e.g. replace in-use libraries and then just restart any services that
>w
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 10:37:11AM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:
>In windows, a file cannot be deleted until all outstanding file handles
>are closed. I think there is an option you can give to the system to
>tell it to delete the file for you when all handles are closed, but
>this still does not al
"James R. Phillips" wrote:
> Isn't this issue a potential problem with any multitasking OS ? If there is a
> windows-specific feature to this issue, I am not aware of it.
In *nix, you can successfully unlink an open file. Its directory entry
will be removed but its inode will remain until all o
Isn't this issue a potential problem with any multitasking OS ? If there is a
windows-specific feature to this issue, I am not aware of it.
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At 11:29 AM 9/12/2005, you wrote:
>I've seen a bunch of similar posts online but I don't see any fixes or
>resolutions. When ever I try to recursively delete a directory, I get
>the following error:
>
>$ rm -rfv endorsed
>removed `endorsed/xalan.jar'
>removed `endorsed/xercesImpl.jar'
>removed `en
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