Greetings, pimperator.

I'm gonna have to go with the file probably has a handle open on it. But I don't quite know what type of system you're attempting to do this on -- *NIX, Win*, {...}. Win* ain't got a (native) unlink (that I can recall). But of course, all the *NIX's do have unlink. I'm also not familiar with the peculiars with Perl on Win, and unlink. But the doc's say:

On error, unlink will not tell you which files it could not remove. If you want to know which files you could not remove, try them one at a time: 
    foreach my $file ( @goners ) {
    unlink $file or warn "Could not unlink $file: $!";
    }

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You will also need to pass -U flag to Perl.

If nothing else. Now you can at least attempt to track the unlinking of the files, to see why/what's going on.

Best wishes.

--Chris

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In reply to Re: Unlink not deleting, Threading issue? by taint
in thread Unlink not deleting, Threading issue? by pimperator

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