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Joseph Michaud wrote:

>> Administrator AT HeadNode /cygdrive/c/windows/system32
>> $ ls -al tsdiscon.exe tsecimp.exe
>> ls: cannot access tsdiscon.exe: No such file or directory

That's probably because the file is exclusively locked, and the "stat" 
performed by "ls" fails.

See if you see the file if you pass in the "-f" option to ls:

$ ls -f tsdiscon.exe tsecimp.exe

If you can, then this is the issue.  Looks like CMD.EXE is able to 
examine whatever it needs from such files, but stat() in the cygwin 
library cannot (uses different APIs).

I see similar behavior in a file that PointSec drops in my C:\\ 
(PROT_INS.SYS). In fact, even "ls -f" is not able to get any info on 
that file!

% cmd /c dir /AH c:\\prot_ins.sys
  Volume in drive C has no label.
  Volume Serial Number is A8B1-8402

  Directory of c:\

03/22/2007  11:03 AM         2,097,152 PROT_INS.SYS
                1 File(s)      2,097,152 bytes
                0 Dir(s)   4,296,351,744 bytes free

% ls -ln c:\\prot_ins.sys
ls: cannot access c:\prot_ins.sys: Input/Output error
% ls -f c:\\prot_ins.sys
ls: cannot access c:\prot_ins.sys: Input/Output error



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