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


On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 1:02 AM, Corinna Vinschen
<corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> 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. ?What would help is
>> > an strace of a rmdir or rm -rf(*) of a directory which then creates
>> > one of those temporary directories. ?There 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
>> > ? ?the 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?
>
>


I'd love to play guinea pig if it will help get the issue resolved :-)

Thanks,

slide

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