MSYS2 installation hangs forever (due to special characters file in $Recycle.Bin)

[ReinhardBiegelIntech]

I'd like to add some information to the locked issue #5193 here.

• MSYS2 seems to implement some kind of special file handling to resemble the 'delete-file-currently-in-use' behavior of Linux/Unix systems on Windows. See msys2 keeps hidden executables in C:\$Recycle.Bin msys2/MSYS2-packages#1253 (comment). It happends during MSYS2 system upgrade (maybe pacman deleting it's own executable).
  

• dockerd.exe hangs in a endless loop trying to query this file (procmon lines shown in the image repeat forever)
  

WORKAROUND: If you remove the file manually, docker execution continues.

[stephen-turner]

Hmmm, interesting, thanks for that observation.

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