Questions tagged [unlink]
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How to make `rm` faster on ext3/linux?
I have ext3 filesystem mounted with default options. On it I have some ~ 100GB files.
Removal of any of such files takes long time (8 minutes) and causes a lot of io traffic, which increases load on server.
Is there any way to make the rm not as…
user13185
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PHP unlink() deleting file user has no permission to
A bit of a long shot here but thought I'd see if anyone had a fix for this:
I am having an issue whereby the PHP function unlink() is being able to successfully delete a file even though explicit deny NTFS permissions have been applied to the file…
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James Bertschik
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Can NFS unlink and recreate result in a race condition?
I'm seeing strange behavior and I'm wondering if it's a race condition.
The strange behavior is MySQL getting EEXIST when trying to create a temporary file. MySQL reuses temp file names by default, and because it chooses names in order from a pool…
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Bill Karwin
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PHP unlink can't delete file while I can unlink this file in Linux shell
There is a file(644, owner:apache) that I can't delete it using a PHP script with unlink function.
I can't figure it out why unlink fails to delete this file.
BTW, I have tried fclose it before unlink it. Unfortunately, it still didn't…
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David Liu
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