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in thread Unlink not deleting, Threading issue?

You will also need to pass -U flag to Perl.
No you won't. Unless the OP is trying (as root) to direcltly unlink a directory on an ancient UNIX variant, the -U flag is irrelevant.

Dave.

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Re^3: Unlink not deleting, Threading issue?
by taint (Chaplain) on Jun 05, 2014 at 13:08 UTC
    Greetings, dave_the_m.

    The OP (pimperator) mentions Super User twice in the post.

    “...the user has super-user privileges...”
    and
    “After doing some reading I see that unlink() will not work if the file is open or if the user doesn't have superuser privileges, which is not the case for both.”
    Which is why I felt it pertinent to mention the -U flag.

    --Chris

    ¡λɐp ʇɑəɹ⅁ ɐ əʌɐɥ puɐ ʻꜱdləɥ ꜱᴉɥʇ ədoH

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      But the -U flag is only for unlinking directories, not files, and even then it only works on a few ancient UNIX variants. Systems like Linux don't allow you unlink() directories with or without -U.

      And unless there's some documentation I missed, -U does not affect whether Windows can unlink opened files.

      Dave.

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