X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 10:06:46 -0400 From: "Lev Bishop" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: lockfile & link on Core Duo laptop In-Reply-To: <20060625041118.GB22306@happy.netspace.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060625041118.GB22306@happy.netspace.org> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On 6/25/06, Benjamin D wrote: > > Works fine, so I try seeing what happens with strace: > > $ ls -il foo bar; touch foo && strace link foo bar > strace.out 2>&1 && ls -il foo bar > ls: foo: No such file or directory > ls: bar: No such file or directory > ls: bar: No such file or directory > 2814749767163063 -rw------- 1 bdodge mkgroup-l-d 0 Jun 24 20:58 foo Some WAG things to try: a) Put in a pause: $ ls -il foo bar; touch foo && sleep 2 && strace link foo bar > strace.out 2>&1 && ls -il foo bar b) Completely uninstall the Embassy Trusted Security thing (or whatever it's called). c) Suspect (and, to test, uninstall (not just disable)) any realtime virus scanners, personal firewalls, file indexers (google desktop search) and anything else that hooks into file syscalls stuff. (Especially do this if step (a) made any difference). L -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/