On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 18:59 +0000, James Wilkinson wrote: > Richard S. Crawford wrote: > > richard@seamus: ~/music/Howard Shore > > $ rm -rf THELO~1H/ > > rm: cannot remove `THELO~1H//Concerning Hobbits.mp3': Text file busy > > Turns out that this is on a Samba drive. > > For what it's worth, I believe that this is significant. Unix natively > is quite happy to let you unlink (= remove from the file tree) an open > file: a number of programs explicitly use this to ensure that their > temporary files go away when they finish. [1] > > SMB / CIFS, coming from the DOS / OS/2 / Windows world, doesn't have > this concept. When a file is open, it's kept busy, and you can't delete > it. > > It looks like Linux and rm understand this concept for SMB shares. It's > the approach that causes the fewest problems, but it is still not pure > Unix. > > James. Hi Could I ask why you're using samba to a RH8 system, rather than nfs? Laurence
