Re: rmtree() failure on Windows

Tom Lane wrote:

>Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
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>>If I increase the sleep time before dropdb enormously (35 secs) the 
>>unlink errors seem to go away, and instead they become rmdir errors like 
>>the rest.
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>Do you have anything equivalent to ps that you could use to check
>whether there is still an old backend alive during this interval?
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>Does Windows forbid deleting a directory that is the current working
>directory of some process (assuming they even have the same concept
>of cwd as Unixen)?  If so, is this the same error symptom you would get?
>I am wondering if the rmdir failure occurs because an old backend is
>still chdir'd into the database directory.
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No, testing shows you get "permission denied" rather than "directory not 
empty" in this case.

cheers

andrew