On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 09:49:12AM -0400, Robert Spellman wrote: > > On 11/2/10 5:42 PM, Bron Gondwana wrote: > > > >Ok - your IMAP client was holding the lock open so the cleanup didn't > >finish. Basically 2.4.x delays deletion of a mailbox until all the > >current users have closed it - which is why the files were still > >around. This may be pretty broken with subfolders when deleting an > >entire user though - I'll have to think about it for a bit... > This sounds correct. lsof showed that imapd had files open within > the folders that I was trying to delete. As soon as I closed my > email client, lsof no longer showed imapd with those open files, and > the files and directories were gone. Yep. So we need a "kill all currently open connections" API within Cyrus, and we need to use it when deleting a folder. This will probably involve trolling the proc directory looking for processes. It's almost certainly going to be a pain to implement single-threadedly! I'll have to keep thinking about it. Bron. ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
