summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
-rw-r--r--winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc b/winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc
index 62b963844..593c2a4af 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc
@@ -733,7 +733,11 @@ unlink_nt (path_conv &pc)
if (pc.file_attributes () & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_READONLY)
NtSetAttributesFile (fh, pc.file_attributes ());
NtClose (fh);
- goto out;
+ /* Trying to delete in-use executables and DLLs using
+ FILE_DISPOSITION_POSIX_SEMANTICS returns STATUS_CANNOT_DELETE.
+ Fall back to the default method. */
+ if (status != STATUS_CANNOT_DELETE)
+ goto out;
}
/* If the R/O attribute is set, we have to open the file with