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Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 14:11:59 -0400
From: Douglas Coup <dcoup@obj-sys.com>
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Subject: Re: rm -f behavior
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On 4/25/2014 11:47 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> Please don't top-post.  Thanks.
>
>
> On Apr 25 11:30, Douglas Coup wrote:
>> I downloaded the x86/cygwin-inst-20140425.tar.xz file.  I assume all
>> I need to do is run tar xvf against this file?  From the output it
>> certainly looked like it installed the files.
> No.  Just download the DLL and only install the DLL in place of the old
> DLL.  Installing the tar inst file under Cygwin doesn't effectively
> replace the Cygwin DLL.  You should exit all(!) Cygwin processes, mopve
> the release DLL out of the way, and move the new DLL in place.
Good shooting, Corinna.  The problem has gone away with the new DLL.
>
>> But I'm not seeing any difference.  I'm still seeing the permission
>> denied error on rm -f in the scenarios I've described.
>>
>> Incidentally, the sequence below should have nothing to do with Perforce.
>>
>> $ touch dac.txt
>> $ chmod 444 dac.txt
>> $ rm -f dac.txt
>>
>> This is being done completely outside of any Perforce workspaces.
> Sorry, this isn't helpful.  Make sure you're *really* using the correct
> Cygwin DLL from the snapshot (uname -a), and if the above sequence
> really fails to work, first call `attrib dac.txt' before calling rm to
> see if the R/O attribute is set, then call rm under strace again and
> send the strace.  Also, if the R/O attribute gets set in the above
> sequence, I have to know where it comes from.  As I said, Cygwin does
> not set the flag at all for normal files, not even in chmod.
>
>
> Corinna
>


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