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Brian Dessent schrieb: > Dave Miles wrote: >>>Since re-starting the system and repeating the copy on drive O: (the >>>newly created NTFS partition that 'cp' worked in) the "magically created >>>directory" now appears when using 'cp'. >> >>So I tried to re-format it and was denied. On investigation >>it turned out that Norton System Works had protection enabled >>on this drive. I disabled it and 'cp' now works again. Also >>if you check the exclusions on a drive that Norton is >>protecting you'll see that '\temp' is excluded. >> >>So for me at least disabling Norton Protection on a folder >>or drive that I intend to use Cygwin on is the way to go. > > Thanks for the resolution, for the archives' sake. > > The moral of the story is "Expect illogical issues to crop up if you run > invasive programs that install low-level hooks all throughout various > system APIs." "... when they come from norton or symantec." I successfully run perfectly invasive programs which install low-level hooks all throughout various system APIs without any problem for years. Sysinternals hooks, AVPersonal virus guard. But I wouldn't expect this to work without any problems if the name symantec or mcafee is involved. -- Reini Urban http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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