197076 - POST upload leaves file open

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 183689

(Core :: Networking: File, defect)

Description

[Ralf-Peter Rohbeck]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1; MultiZilla v1.1.34 (d)) Gecko/20030221
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1; MultiZilla v1.1.34 (d)) Gecko/20030221

After a file is uploaded via <form METHOD=POST ...><input type="file">, the
local file stays open and cannot be deleted.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a page that has an upload function, e.g.
http://geocities.yahoo.com/v/ul.html (<form ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data"
METHOD=POST ACTION="http://geocities.yahoo.com/filemanager/upload"><input
type="file" name="userfile" size="50">)
2. Select a file with Browse...
3. Upload the file.
4. Try to delete the local file.

Actual Results:  
The file cannot be deleted. You get a sharing violation.


Expected Results:  
File should have been closed so it can be deleted. After you close Mozilla, the
file can be deleted.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Is this a problem:

1)  Without Multizilla?
2)  With a current build?

This used to be a bug awhile ago, but it's been fixed for months....

Comment 2

[Ralf-Peter Rohbeck]

Just tried again with
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030312
Same thing.
However... my "local" file is on a Samba share on my Linux box. I copied the
file to the local disk on my Windows box, uploaded it, and it was closed properly.
With the file on a shared drive on another Windows machine, it again doesn't get
closed.

Ralf-Peter

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

darin, sounds like your file-closing hack for Windows doesn't work on SMB shares?

Comment 4

[Felix Miata]

I know bug 126829 was fixed last summer, but I occasionally see this with recent
(OS/2) trunk builds using the W3C HTML validator, about one in 30-40 (est)
tries, not on shares. To workaround, I find another file to upload, which
releases the lock.

Comment 5

[Darin Fisher]

wierd... moz doesn't distinguish between local files and SMB files.  i'd have to
setup a testcase to see what's going on.

i don't have any time to investigate this at the moment, but i'll add it to my
futured bug list =/

Comment 6

[benc]

should this go to file submission (as did bug 126829)?

Comment 7

[Stefan Baebler]

To me this looks like a duplicate of bug 183689.
How about joining forces if this is the case? :)

Comment 8

[Aaron Kaluszka]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 183689 ***