Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3C4F03CC.2090001@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 13:41:16 -0500 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: touch References: <200201231825.g0NIPKa09236@abrell.ac.upc.es> <20020123182841.GB16029@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Probably not even appropriate for THIS mailing list, Chris. This is pure windows programming -- what does it have to do with cygwin? However, I've addressed it below: Christopher Faylor wrote: > Wrong mailing list. Redirected. > > cgf > > On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 07:25:20PM +0100, Ivan Martel Perez wrote: > >>Hi all! >> >> I am trying to open a directory using Win32 API : >> >> DWORD n; >> int n1; >> char a[100+1]; >> HANDLE h; >> >> h=CreateFile("c:\\bin\\cygwin", I think you need to pass a non-shell-escaped filename to the windows CreateFile function: h=CreateFile("c:\bin\cygwin",... >> GENERIC_READ|GENERIC_WRITE, >> FILE_SHARE_READ, >> NULL, >> OPEN_EXISTING|OPEN_ALWAYS, >> FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS, >> NULL); >> >> if(h==INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) error(); >> >>I always get and invalid handle and the error string "Access >>denied". I've been trying some flag changes without results. >> >>The program I'm writting is motivated because 'touch' does not >>update directories. >> >>Is there a way to enable 'touching' dirs? Dunno about this. --Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/