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Date:	Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:17:37 -0700
From:	Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah AT zimbra DOT com>
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Subject:	Oddities with file deletion on CIFS drive
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I have a CIFS drive I connect to as the windows user.  I can write to the 
drive with no problem.  However, when I go to delete files from the drive, 
Cygwin behaves very oddly.

build AT zre-win-002 
/cygdrive/z/current/WINDOWS/main/20100908131458_ZDESKTOP/ZimbraBuild/templates
$ rm -f *

build AT zre-win-002 
/cygdrive/z/current/WINDOWS/main/20100908131458_ZDESKTOP/ZimbraBuild/templates
$ ls -l
total 104
-r-xr-xr-x 1 ???????? ???????? 1362 2010-09-08 13:31 BUILD_EVO_template
-r-xr-xr-x 1 ???????? ???????? 1453 2010-09-08 13:31 BUILD_ISYNC_template
-r-xr-xr-x 1 ???????? ????????  636 2010-09-08 13:31 BUILD_LABEL_template
-r-xr-xr-x 1 ???????? ???????? 1536 2010-09-08 13:31 
BUILD_WIN_UPDATE_template
-r-xr-xr-x 1 ???????? ???????? 1699 2010-09-08 13:31 BUILD_template
-r-xr-xr-x 1 ???????? ???????? 4508 2010-09-08 13:31 BUILD_template_FOSS
-r-xr-xr-x 1 ???????? ???????? 7118 2010-09-08 13:31 
BUILD_template_FOSS_ThirdParty
-r-xr-xr-x 1 ???????? ???????? 1453 2010-09-08 13:31 BUILD_template_ISYNC
-r-xr-xr-x 1 ???????? ???????? 5535 2010-09-08 13:31 BUILD_template_NETWORK
-r-xr-xr-x 1 ???????? ???????? 7975 2010-09-08 13:31 
BUILD_template_NETWORK_ThirdParty
-r-xr-xr-x 1 ???????? ???????? 1463 2010-09-08 13:31 BUILD_template_TOASTER
-r-xr-xr-x 1 ???????? ???????? 2989 2010-09-08 13:31 BUILD_template_ZDESKTOP
-r-xr-xr-x 1 ???????? ???????? 1386 2010-09-08 13:31 BUILD_test

Even with -f, it failed to delete these files.  Files that were created by 
this very user.

Now, if I modify the file to be +w, then -w, so it returns to its original 
permissions, I can suddenly delete it:

build AT zre-win-002 
/cygdrive/z/current/WINDOWS/main/20100908131458_ZDESKTOP/ZimbraBuild/templates
$ chmod a+w BUILD_EVO_template

build AT zre-win-002 
/cygdrive/z/current/WINDOWS/main/20100908131458_ZDESKTOP/ZimbraBuild/templates
$ chmod a-w BUILD_EVO_template

build AT zre-win-002 
/cygdrive/z/current/WINDOWS/main/20100908131458_ZDESKTOP/ZimbraBuild/templates
$ rm BUILD_EVO_template

build AT zre-win-002 
/cygdrive/z/current/WINDOWS/main/20100908131458_ZDESKTOP/ZimbraBuild/templates
$ ls -l
total 96
-r-xr-xr-x 1 ???????? ???????? 1453 2010-09-08 13:31 BUILD_ISYNC_template
-r-xr-xr-x 1 ???????? ????????  636 2010-09-08 13:31 BUILD_LABEL_template
-r-xr-xr-x 1 ???????? ???????? 1536 2010-09-08 13:31 
BUILD_WIN_UPDATE_template
-r-xr-xr-x 1 ???????? ???????? 1699 2010-09-08 13:31 BUILD_template
-r-xr-xr-x 1 ???????? ???????? 4508 2010-09-08 13:31 BUILD_template_FOSS
-r-xr-xr-x 1 ???????? ???????? 7118 2010-09-08 13:31 
BUILD_template_FOSS_ThirdParty
-r-xr-xr-x 1 ???????? ???????? 1453 2010-09-08 13:31 BUILD_template_ISYNC
-r-xr-xr-x 1 ???????? ???????? 5535 2010-09-08 13:31 BUILD_template_NETWORK
-r-xr-xr-x 1 ???????? ???????? 7975 2010-09-08 13:31 
BUILD_template_NETWORK_ThirdParty
-r-xr-xr-x 1 ???????? ???????? 1463 2010-09-08 13:31 BUILD_template_TOASTER
-r-xr-xr-x 1 ???????? ???????? 2989 2010-09-08 13:31 BUILD_template_ZDESKTOP
-r-xr-xr-x 1 ???????? ???????? 1386 2010-09-08 13:31 BUILD_test


This behavior is quite bizarre.  I should be able to delete the files I 
created with the "-f" option to "rm".

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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Zimbra, Inc
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