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-----Original Message----- From: Brian Rice [SMTP:brice@gnac.com] Sent: Monday, November 08, 1999 2:13 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: Failure of rm -rf
I've started seeing exactly this sort of failure in rm -rf's as of 5.3.2D3.
rm: Unable to remove directory foo/bar/baz/gorp: File exists rm: Unable to remove directory foo/bar/baz: File exists rm: Unable to remove directory foo/bar: File exists rm: Unable to remove directory foo: File exists
Someone asserted that these files were probably open. But they're not... or at least they're no more or less likely to be open than any of the other files I have rm -rf'ed with no problem in the past.
The problem is non-deterministic. Re-running the rm -rf does help, but of course having to repeatedly re-issue rm commands as root does pose quite a new set of problems. :-\
Brian