#23687 [Bgs]: Permission denied error with unlink()

ID: 23687 User updated by: a dot eibach at gmx dot net Reported By: a dot eibach at gmx dot net Status: Bogus Bug Type: Filesystem function related Operating System: Windows 2000 PHP Version: 4.3.2RC3 New Comment: YES! And I just figured it out! As I said "I wanted to keep it simple". The whole stuff happened in a if ($newdirhandle = @opendir($newdirname)) { ... } construct, and *THAT* was causing the problem. You **must** do a closedir() _BEFORE_ doing this renaming stuff because you're blocking everything otherwise. Frankly, I thought these two could interact independently of each other, but in fact, they're working closely together. Anyway, thanks for your reactions. -ae- Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-05-18 17:26:51] sniper@php.net You're just doing somethign wrong, this works fine here. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-05-18 17:09:10] wez@php.net Not enough information was provided for us to be able to handle this bug. Please re-read the instructions at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php If you can provide more information, feel free to add it to this bug and change the status back to "Open". Thank you for your interest in PHP. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-05-18 17:07:42] a dot eibach at gmx dot net to sniper: actually, this was problems with rename(), not unlink() at first instant in my script. But since I claim to know that rename() does a copy(), then uses unlink() afterwards, the 'perm. denied' error hadn't to do with rename(), but with unlink(). Yes, rmdir() works now (THANKS!) but I still have problems with unlink()'ing files sometimes. I admit this script was a very bad example. :| I tried to keep it simple, but that was too simple... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-05-18 17:05:58] wez@php.net php.net/rmdir ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-05-18 17:03:51] a dot eibach at gmx dot net Well, Windows seems to be *VERY* sensitive about this. This thing didn't let me loose, and I just used the Task Manager and killed the 'Explorer' Task - another one was initiated by Windows. Now it worked! I will test this through further and append some delays using sleep(). It might be that actions just get executed _too fast_ and Windows can't follow as quickly as Linux. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/23687 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=23687&edit=1