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Re: unlink() patch (was Cygwin CVS breaks PostgreSQL drop table)


On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 08:18:27AM -0600, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > 
> > BTW, I have a naive question related to unlink. I had just another
> > look into SUSv2 and to my surprise it defines the following error
> > code:
> > 
> > [EBUSY]    The file named by the path argument cannot be unlinked
> >            because it is being used by the system or another process
> >            and the implementation considers this an error.
> > 
> > which basically means, if we try to unlink a file and that fails,
> > we wouldn't have to force it by ugly tricks (delqueue) but just
> > return EBUSY and Cygwin would still be SUSv2 compliant.
> > 
> > All: Would that be ok to change or would you like to keep the current
> >      behaviour?
> > 
> 
> I vote for EBUSY.  The delqueue has the potential to be more harmful
> than good.

I just realized that this question has to be combined with another
question:

Is anybody aware of an application which would really miserably
fail if unlink() returns EBUSY? Besides `rm' of course ;-)

Corinna

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