On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Robert Kochem <rob...@mailueberfall.de> wrote: > Hi. > > I am using TortoiseHG 2.1.3 on Win64 and have serious problems because hg > operations (commit, pus, pull) often fail. > > The error message is always the same: "The process cannot access the file > because it is being used by another process." > Unfortunately hg does not tell which file is affected. > > The only way to make hg work again is to kill ever Explorer.exe process. > Therefore this seems to me like a problem in the shell extension which > locks file handles and does not release them properly. > IMHO the shell extension should release file handles as fast as possible. > Additionally all calls to the CreateFile Win-API function should specify > dwShareMode as FILE_SHARE_DELETE | FILE_SHARE_READ | FILE_SHARE_WRITE so > that it does not block any other process. > > Robert > > [1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa363858 > (v=vs.85).aspx
The GUI windows use a QFileSystemWatcher instance to watch the repository for changes. Over network disks, this causes problems like you're reporting. A few releases back we added a configuration option to only watch for file system events on local disks. -- Steve Borho ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your Android app more play: Bring it to the BlackBerry PlayBook in minutes. BlackBerry App World™ now supports Android™ Apps for the BlackBerry® PlayBook™. Discover just how easy and simple it is! http://p.sf.net/sfu/android-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Tortoisehg-develop mailing list Tortoisehg-develop@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tortoisehg-develop
