[Discuss] Strange rm behavior

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

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I have a directory that is mounted from a NAS server
/mnts/workspaces/foobar/project

In my script, the code is:
RM=/bin/rm
cd /mnts/workspaces/foobar
count=3
while [ -d project ] && [count -gt 0];do
    sleep 5  # there may be a process using a file. Wait for it to
cleanup and exit
    $RM -rf project
    let count=$count-1
done

rm returns 0. buf fails to remove a couple of subdirectories.
However all other subdirectories are successfully removed.
if I execute the command '/bin/rm -rf project ' by hand it works fine.

Also, I'm sure that no other process that affects this process is
running in my test case.

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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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