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From: "Alex Malinovich" <baggend AT howlermonkey DOT net>
To: "'Corinna Vinschen'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Undead hard link
Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 12:47:54 -0500
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Here's my screen output:

---------------------------------------------------------------------
Administrator AT THIEF /lib
$ ps
      PID    PPID    PGID     WINPID  TTY  UID    STIME COMMAND
     1836       1    1836       1836  con  500 12:43:41 /usr/bin/bash
     2448    1836    2448       2332  con  500 12:44:27 /usr/bin/ps

Administrator AT THIEF /lib
$ rm edit
rm: cannot unlink `edit': Permission denied

Administrator AT THIEF /lib
$
---------------------------------------------------------------------

I have no other relevant windows processes running.

-Alex

-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
[mailto:cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com] On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen
Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 12:48 PM
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Undead hard link


On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 11:34:00AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> I inadvertantly made a hard link to emacs about an hour ago, and now 
> it refuses to die. ln -f doesn't work, rm doesn't work, windows delete

> doesn't work. And there's no unlink anywhere in sight. I'm running 
> cygwin under W2K on an NTFS partition. I had thought that the problem 
> might be the file access settings, but access rights (under cygwin) 
> are showing up as rwx for owner which would be me. Windows permissions

> list rwx for "Everyone". The link is named "edit" and it points to 
> "/bin/emacs-20.7/bin/emacs.exe". I've tried:
> 
> rm edit
> rm: cannot unlink `emacs.exe': Permission denied
> 
> ln -f /bin/emacs-20.7/bin/emacs.exe edit
> rm: cannot unlink `emacs.exe': Permission denied

Is an emacs process running while you're trying to remove the link?
That's a problem in Windows. Stop emacs and try again.

Corinna

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