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ZipVirtualPathProvider takes an exclusive lock on the backing zip file

Found in

EPiServer.CMS.UI.Core 7.6.0

Created

May 06, 2014

Updated

Jun 09, 2014

Area

Falcon/CMS/Edit UI

State

Closed, Fixed and Tested


Steps to reproduce

When the ZipVirtualPathProvider is used for serving files from within a zip archive, the backing zip file is locked exclusively.

This prevents automatic deployment of sites without restarting the application pool. Restarting the application pool shouldn't be necessary when releasing new code.

 

1. Make sure the site is running by loading the CMS UI in a browser

2. Try to delete or replace modules/_protected/EPiServer.Shell.UI.zip

 

The file can't be deleted since it's locked by an IIS worker process.