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Date:	Wed, 9 Apr 2003 12:29:29 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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Subject:	Re: Problem with database engine on cygwin
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On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> 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

Yes.  I'll take this even further to say that you can't use unlink() to
remove directories -- you have to use rmdir() (which uses RemoveDirectory
[which fails in my case]).  Still looking...
	Igor
P.S. Files are ok now.
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