Re: files stay open on server...

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From: Henry Craven (IUnknown_at_Dot.Nyet)
Date: 11/07/04


Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 08:53:46 +1100


"keep the handle open" ? You might Keep a Thread Open or a File Open,
but a Handle is the programmatic Unique Identifier for a "Window", so
unless the application programmers -really- screwed up and made the
window invisible on app shutdown instead of closing the windows, I don't
think you mean that. - That's not to say that I haven't seen badly
written applications that do jut that, or that don't properly do Garbage
Collection and leave artefacts open after app close.

One of the causes of artefacts being left open can be lack of delete
permission on a folder, so that the file locking file cannot be
destroyed, and the application believes the file in use until the
"Session" identifier changes ( which can happen on Log-off/Log-on ). -
Again, the Application vendor/programmer should know how that's handled,
and the likely cause of files remaining locked.

-- 
Henry Craven {SBS-MVP}
CI Information Technology
    Melbourne Australia
"Andre" <nomade1999@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:OLBNLNMxEHA.824@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Nonono, the application is shutdown,
> but it seem that windows or SBS keep the handle open until the user
actually
> send a logoff signal of some sort.
>
> I have look twice at this computer after that problem and nothing was
> runing, even check the process and still nothing, but SBS reported
that thos
> files were open still.
>
> andre


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