abuehl added a comment.
In https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D588#9989, @indygreg wrote: > OK. I failed to grok the unlink semantics on Windows. I'll need to read up on MSDN. I doubt this is documented on MSDN, but in case you find it there, please share the link (perhaps add it on the UnlinkingFilesOnWindows <https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/UnlinkingFilesOnWindows> wiki page). The code has pretty big comment right underneath where you inserted your change. The important part is this one: # - Calling os.unlink on a file that has been opened with Mercurial's # posixfile (or comparable methods) will delay the actual deletion of # the file for as long as the file is held open. The filename is blocked # during that time and cannot be used for recreating a new file under # that same name ("zombie file"). Directories containing such zombie files # cannot be removed or moved. REPOSITORY rHG Mercurial REVISION DETAIL https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D588 To: indygreg, #hg-reviewers, quark Cc: abuehl, durin42, quark, mercurial-devel _______________________________________________ Mercurial-devel mailing list Mercurial-devel@mercurial-scm.org https://www.mercurial-scm.org/mailman/listinfo/mercurial-devel
