Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 12:12:48 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Problem with database engine on cygwin Message-ID: <20030409161248.GJ5879@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20030409004727.GF26203@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 11:24:29PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 07:28:21PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >>>It may be more complicated than that. unlink() calls DeleteFile(), and >>>who knows what happens in the guts of it. For instance, I'm having a >>>permission problem with deleting files on a Samba share from inside of >>>applications (but no problems deleting them from the shell). I've >>>traced it as far as the DeleteFile() call, which fails in the former >>>case and succeeds in the latter. Go figure... >> >>The latest version of cygwin should try to delete files via CreatFile >>before resorting to DeleteFile. Does CreateFile fail also? cgf > >Did the same changes propagate to directories? Because I'm actually >having this problem with removing CVS lock directories. Updating to >cygwin-1.3.22 didn't help. No. You can't, AFAIK, use CreateFile to unlink directories. But then, you can't, AFAIK, use DeleteFile to unlink them either. cgf -- 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/