On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:18 PM, Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> ...
>>> I think Johannes was referring to the case when a directory is busy.
>>> E.g. a process is running that has its working directory inside that
>>> directory. In that case ENOTEMPTY was not returned even though the
>>> directory is not empty. Thats what I read from the patch.
>>
>> I don't think that's the case either:
>> $ echo "int main() { while (1); }" | gcc -x c - -o foo/bin.exe
>> [kusma@HUE-PC:/git@work/xgetenv]
>> $ foo/bin.exe &
>> [2] 3188
>> [kusma@HUE-PC:/git@work/xgetenv]
>> $ ./a.exe
>> rmdir: Directory not empty
>> errno: 41 (expected 41)
>
> I don't do windows, but I think Heiko is talking about running some
> process inside the directory that is getting removed. Assuming that your
> a.exe is to remove the 'foo' directory, you would need to run ./bin.exe
> after going into 'foo' directory, perhaps like this:
>
> $ (cd foo && ./bin.exe) &
> $ ./a.exe
Of course, silly me:
$ ./a.exe
rmdir: Permission denied
errno: 13 (expected 41)
Thanks for clearing that up, now I'm on board :)
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