On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Elvin Peterson wrote: > --- Chris Green <chris<at>areti<dot>co<dot>uk> wrote:
Elvin, Please configure your mail client to not quote raw e-mail addresses in replies -- they're just so much fodder for spambots. > > On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 08:26:13PM -0800, Elvin Peterson wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > $ ./startxwin.sh > > > rm: cannot unlink `/tmp/.X11-unix/X0': Permission denied > > > rm: cannot remove directory `/tmp/.X11-unix': Directory not empty > > > > > > Attempt to remove the file using explorer fails with "file in use > > > error". How do I remove this directory? Any help is appreciated. > > > > > > I have attached the output from cygcheck -svr to this mail. > > > Thanks. > > > > I had this problem a few weeks ago too, in the end I think I managed > > to get rid of it from the windows command line. However I couldn't > > make any sense of the errors about "file in use" and so on either. > > Thanks for the reply. I remember having the same problem when I tried > to uninstall WinZip. After a lot of tries, one day the file was just > gone. Seems like a stupid way to deal with things. Terminating the process that holds a handle to the file will release that handle. Rebooting usually has that effect too (unless the process is an automatically started service that reacquires the handle). > Is there an equivalent to the Linux 'fuser' command for cygwin? That > would show what process was accessing it. > > Thanks. Not in Cygwin per se, but there's a "handle" utility from <http://www.sysinternals.com/> that will do what you want. Keep in mind that "handle" is a pure Windows program, and won't understand POSIX paths, so you'll need to convert them using "cygpath", e.g., handle `cygpath -w /tmp/.X11-unix/X0` HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton
