On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> This is all true on the Darwin level, but there is some extra voodoo 
> associated with the Trash subsystem.  From the Terminal, the file can be 
> rm'ed with no complaint at all, meaning the underlying OS is happy and all 
> streams are closed.  But there is some extra bookkeeping going on at the 
> Locum level, which is failing.

I don't think I've ever seen rm fail to delete a file because it's
been in use, even on traditional *nix systems. In fact, if I remember
correctly, I'll notice that Trash is stuck on a file (in use), lsof
will list the file as in use by Finder or some other process, rm
completes successfully, and lsof no longer lists the file as in use.

-- 
arno  s  hautala    /-|   [email protected]

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