Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/04/09/12:16:31
On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 11:24:29PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 07:28:21PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>>>It may be more complicated than that. unlink() calls DeleteFile(), and
>>>who knows what happens in the guts of it. For instance, I'm having a
>>>permission problem with deleting files on a Samba share from inside of
>>>applications (but no problems deleting them from the shell). I've
>>>traced it as far as the DeleteFile() call, which fails in the former
>>>case and succeeds in the latter. Go figure...
>>
>>The latest version of cygwin should try to delete files via CreatFile
>>before resorting to DeleteFile. Does CreateFile fail also? cgf
>
>Did the same changes propagate to directories? Because I'm actually
>having this problem with removing CVS lock directories. Updating to
>cygwin-1.3.22 didn't help.
No. You can't, AFAIK, use CreateFile to unlink directories. But then,
you can't, AFAIK, use DeleteFile to unlink them either.
cgf
--
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
- Raw text -