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Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:02:11 -0500
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Mark J. Reed wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 2:52 PM, greenup wrote:
>> your perl test was a nice try; but it also did not remove the file,
>> which is revealing.
> 
> I should have included a return code check:
> 
> perl -e 'unlink("goo/foo") or die $!'
> 
> I suspect that will still run silently without removing the file,
> indicating that the problem is indeed in the unlink(2) system call.
> Which *should* succeed in any case; unlink() doesn't care about the
> permissions of the target file, only of the directory containing it.
> 
> I see your original message confirmed that you were running Cygwin's
> rm, btw; sorry for the extra hoop-jumping there.
> 
> So at this point I'm at a loss.  I'm running the same version of
> Cygwin (though on Vista, not XP) on the same type of filesystem (NTFS)
> and not seeing the issue.  Is there any way this could be
> BLODA-induced?

Sounds like it.  His cygcheck output names one possible source of conflict:

> Potential app conflicts:
> 
> Sonic Solutions burning software containing DLA component


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