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halley
Due to some systems like VMS, the "sanctioned" idiom for deleting files is like:
<code>
1 while unlink($filename);
</code>
Or variantly,
<code>
unlink($filename) while -f $filename;
</code>
However, that kind of loop appears a bit dangerous if you're not sure that unlink() will always eventually return FALSE or remove all versions of that file.
<p>It SOUNDS like that's the kind of bug the -C cleanup code is introducing here. If the file is still open, then going into one of those loops would have the behavior you're experiencing. I haven't dug into pp's code, though, to be sure of it.
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<p>--<br><tt>[ e d @ h a l l e y . c c ]</tt>
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