problem recursively removing directories on an NFS mount

[Dr. Marco]

On Mon, 24 Jun 2002 10:32:15 -0700, 
Curtis Jensen <cjensen at bioeng.ucsd.edu> wrote :

> fine.  However, sometimes nfs files of the form ".nfs07D7761" get
> created.  This causes the os.rmdir( full_name ) command to throw an

Such files appear when you remove a remote file that is still opened
by another program. They should disappear when the file is closed. A
solution could be to move them to another directory but I confess I
don't know if this can be done safely.

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Dr. Marco