Bad Jenkins Slave?

[Piet van Oostrum]

Wols Lists wrote:

 > On 22/02/15 05:50, Norbert Thiebaud wrote:
 > > PS: Windows 2012 somehow ended-up with a 'ghost' directory that no-one
 > > could delete not even Admin ( Windows these days is so secure than
 > > even Administrator does not have the permission to delete files....
 > > yeah that is the symptom: 'Permission denied' whatever you try to do
 > > with that Directory...)
 > > Solution: Standard Microsoft Support Technique: Reboot. Hard to
 > > imagine that some people are running this crap on 'production' system
 > > :-/
 > 
 > Mmmm ... so Unix that lets you delete files under a running process,
 > causing a crash, is any better?
 > 
 No, that's not how it works on Unix systems. If a file is removed that is still open in a program, the directory entry disappears (meaning that you have no chance of opening it again) but it remains open in the program (or programs) and it only physically disappears when all programs using it have closed it.
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