Subject: Re: fileutils-4.0-3
From: Andrew Markebo <[email-masked]>
To: Jerrold Heyman <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: 13 Jun 2001 09:05:51 +0200

Shouldn't you do something like du -k //d/path/to/file ?? 

        /A

/ Jerrold Heyman <[email-masked]> wrote:
| I've made the fileutils-4.0-3 version of du available to
| my users, and I have one who is reporting the following problem
| running:
| 
| du -k d:\path\to\file
| "Permission Denied"
| 
| There is another process that has the file open, and they are
| using the du in a periodic loop to make sure that the disk doesn't
| fill up.  If they kill the process that has the file open, then the
| du works successfully.
| 
| Is there something within Cygwin.dll that keeps du from successfully
| accessing the file while another process is accessing it??
| 
| jerry
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