From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 21:54:35 GMT
Subject: Re: [msysGit] Re: [PATCH v4 5/5] mingw_rmdir: set errno=ENOTEMPTY when appropriate
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Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:18 PM, Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net> wrote:
> ...
>> I think Johannes was referring to the case when a directory is busy.
>> E.g. a process is running that has its working directory inside that
>> directory. In that case ENOTEMPTY was not returned even though the
>> directory is not empty. Thats what I read from the patch.
>
> I don't think that's the case either:
> $ echo "int main() { while (1); }" | gcc -x c - -o foo/bin.exe
> [kusma@HUE-PC:/git@work/xgetenv]
> $ foo/bin.exe &
> [2] 3188
> [kusma@HUE-PC:/git@work/xgetenv]
> $ ./a.exe
> rmdir: Directory not empty
> errno: 41 (expected 41)

I don't do windows, but I think Heiko is talking about running some
process inside the directory that is getting removed.  Assuming that your
a.exe is to remove the 'foo' directory, you would need to run ./bin.exe
after going into 'foo' directory, perhaps like this:

    $ (cd foo && ./bin.exe) &
    $ ./a.exe