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in thread Unlink not deleting, Threading issue?

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

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Re^4: Unlink not deleting, Threading issue?
by dave_the_m (Monsignor) on Jun 05, 2014 at 14:41 UTC
    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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