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To: Jerrold Heyman <jheyman AT dev DOT tivoli DOT com>
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: fileutils-4.0-3
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From: Andrew Markebo <flognat AT flognat DOT myip DOT org>
Date: 13 Jun 2001 09:05:51 +0200
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Shouldn't you do something like du -k //d/path/to/file ?? 

        /A

/ Jerrold Heyman <jheyman AT dev DOT tivoli DOT com> wrote:
| I've made the fileutils-4.0-3 version of du available to
| my users, and I have one who is reporting the following problem
| running:
| 
| du -k d:\path\to\file
| "Permission Denied"
| 
| There is another process that has the file open, and they are
| using the du in a periodic loop to make sure that the disk doesn't
| fill up.  If they kill the process that has the file open, then the
| du works successfully.
| 
| Is there something within Cygwin.dll that keeps du from successfully
| accessing the file while another process is accessing it??
| 
| jerry
| Jerry Heyman   919.224.1442    | Tivoli Systems       |"Software is the 
| Build Infrastructure Architect | 3901 S Miami Blvd    | difference between
| Jerry DOT Heyman AT tivoli DOT com        | RTP, NC  27709       | hardware and reality"
|                   http://www.acm.org/~heymanj
| 
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