twice delete a directory before it really is deleted

[Bill Moran]

 -- Warning -- I'm guessing here --

Try turning off all oplocks.  Win9X has a lot of trouble with oplocks.  This
just has the sound of the Windows machine thinking it's OK to cache
information indefinately, and that sounds like broken oplock usage to me.

Also, could you let me know if that's the solution, since I'm guessing.

-Bill

On Friday 26 October 2001 08:09, Edward Dekkers wrote:
> > I've also had difficulty getting W98 to see updated versions of files
> > when the modifications have originated at other smb clients or the Linux
>
> console.
>
> > I put it down to newbieness infecting a config somewhere, and added it to
>
> a
>
> > long list of such issues which are steadily evaporating as the newbieness
> > fades.  But maybe this one's real?
>
> Yep, yep yep hang on. I think I have a related problem that I dumped by the
> wayside a long time ago because I just couldn't get it to work.
>
> I had a diald monitoring program logging into a straight text file on a
> /home/shared public share from within Linux. The idea was that Winblows
> clients would poll this text file, updating it every so often within
> windows memory to show latest throughput statistics. The logging was
> working perfectly. I could easily 'tail-f' the file and see it grow for
> testing purposes on the Linux box. However the Winbloze clients would load
> the file correctly always first thing in the morning. I had set the logger
> to pass values into the text file at one minute intervals, and I set the
> clients up to parse the text file every 10 or so (a refresh basically). In
> code on the clients this was done as such every 10 minutes:
>
> 1> Open the text file.
> 2> Parse statistics
> 3> Close the text file
>
> and after a while of fighting with it I even did:
>
> 4> Drop any file handles etc.
>
> Just to try to get it to work. No go. The file would not re-load WITH the
> new information. It would always re-load (bad terminology - it obviously
> didn't really re-load but you get the picture) the file as it was first
> thing in the morning. No matter how much more info was supposed to be in
> it. I dumped the project with a 'too hard' sticker on it.
>
> I was a newbie at the time too. Maybe it wasn't my fault?
>
> What am I missing? Is there a real problem?
>
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Bill Moran
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