From: rxmtemp AT mcdata DOT com (Raj Menon) Subject: Re: Problem with wait? 25 Jun 1998 08:18:09 -0700 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com System: PII 300, NT 4.0 SP3, 64 Megs, Cygwin 19 (latest coolview), FAT partition. More information on the problem described below: I create a directory, and then copy a large number (50+) of files into it. The files are all chmod to 400 (-r--------). In TCSH if I keep doing an "rm -rf *" and then "^C" to stop it, then "ls -l" then restart the rm, periodically, I get permissions changed on files. Sometimes the files become 444 (-r--r--r--) and sometimes they get the character device attribute attached (crw-rw-rw). After the permission change, if I do the rm and hit "^C" quickly, the files usually revert back to normal. Why are the permissions changing? Is it because I only have FAT partitions? For some time now, I was thinking this only happened in a shared directory when someone was using the file from a remore machine. I just found out that this is not the case. When files get the character device attribute added, a lot of the cygwin programs (like make) barf. Ideas? -raj >>> Andy Mortimer 06/12/98 08:45AM >>> >> I don't know if this worked for you, Ian, but I've just started >> getting this error (I've just started running large builds too, so I >> don't think it's something I've just broken) with Sergey's >> latest. Again, having started happening it seems to happen for most >> commands -- although not all; usually I can do an "ls" without >> problems, but it won't let me run any shell scripts -- until I reboot. >> Does anyone have any idea how I would go about looking for more >> information on this? Or ideally, how to fix it? > > I had reported a problem a while ago which sounds similar to this. > Sometimes when I do large (make goes 5 deep, about 100+ files > compiled), I get strange problems. I had thought it was a bug in > make, but it does not seem so. Some files (at random) would get > the "character device" attribute attached to them. Then when any > program accesses them, things go crazy (see message posted > 4/21/98 titled possible make problems for more info). I have > since discovered more about the problem. > > It seems like the problem only happens when the directory tree > is "shared" and multiple users on the MS Network have files opened > in the directories I am doing a build in. Sometimes, I can recover without > rebooting by disconnecting the shares and restarting tcsh. > > Shares can be disconnected by: > > Start->Settings->Control Panel->Server > > Then click the "Shares" button on the bottom and Disconnect the users. > I think you might need Admin privileges to do this, but am not sure. > > Sometimes, this does not work as Windows Networking can re-establish > the share. Then I usually reboot. > > Hope this helps. > > -raj ! ! - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".