----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Sphar" mikey@Remedy.COM To: toasters@mathworks.com Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 4:11 PM Subject: RE: Lock files
I was about to ask a similar question actually. We keep running into problems where our build group can't delete a directory because someone
else
had opened one of the files in it, and then the build automation fails.
Not
even root can remove those files until the offending session is found and killed or the lock is removed.
This I don't understand. Root should always be allowed to remove files even if they are locked. If the filer doesn't allow that, I consider it a bug (even if it's a design choice).
Of course, NT's Administrator has different privelages. I suppose you could enforce that on the UNIX side and require root to first chown the files to root, and then delete them. But that would be an optional behavior.
Bruce