X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_MSGID_LONG40,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <5520d94f0901130916l7669d8capa39587365237da4f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:16:14 -0800 From: "greenup greenup" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: rm seems to fail In-Reply-To: <5520d94f0901130901y66a7df50yca7e586998a3bea3@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <5520d94f0901130852l310a9dfdk9821c26458d8d5e@mail.gmail.com> <5520d94f0901130901y66a7df50yca7e586998a3bea3@mail.gmail.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 oh, I forgot to mention: right after doing the rm, the return code is success, even though it failed to actually remove the file. dz@w2 ~ $ rm -f goo/foo dz@w2 ~ $ echo $? 0 On 1/13/09, greenup greenup wrote: >... > dz@w2 ~ > $ mkdir goo > > dz@w2 ~ > $ touch goo/foo > > dz@w2 ~ > $ chmod 400 goo/foo > > dz@w2 ~ > $ rm -f goo/foo > > dz@w2 ~ > $ ls -la goo > total 0 > drwxr-xr-x+ 2 dz mkgroup-l-d 0 Jan 13 08:10 . > drwxrwx---+ 23 Administrators SYSTEM 0 Jan 13 08:10 .. > -r-------- 1 dz mkgroup-l-d 0 Jan 13 08:10 foo > > ... -- 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/