[Tfug] OT: Open file handles under W2K

[James Daniel]

I wouldn't say I run into this problem any more or less in Windows than I do 
in Linux, neither being common, and in both systems the vast majority of 
cases are the result of an error between chair and keyboard, or a 
run-away/zombie process.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bexley Hall" <bexley401 at yahoo.com>
To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Tfug] OT: Open file handles under W2K


> Hi, James,
>
> --- James Daniel <jdaniel at skylinelab.com> wrote:
>
>> I use Unlocker at work for these kinds of problems.
>> It uses a shell
>> extension for manual control and a background
>> process that catches open
>> handle errors and offers to perform violent acts
>> upon the offending process.
>>
>> http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/
>
> Excellent!  This is both reassuring and distressing:
> - reassuring in the sense that it suggests the problem
>  is not unique to my configuration (I was wondering
>  if I was running a defective application or maybe
>  something funky about the dual CPU configuration)
> - distressing in that it suggests this is a flaw
>  in the "OS" (loosely using that to refer to the
>  OS plus apps/tools distributed with it) itself.
>
> I note that I only see this problem on my one dual
> CPU wintel box -- any *single* CPU systems running
> the same software seem to work fine!  :<
>
> (sigh)
>
> Micro, Soft; small, limp.  :<
>
>
> 
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