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From: Heribert Dahms <heribert_dahms AT icon-scm DOT com>
To: "'Ethan Mallove'" <emallove AT yahoo DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: cannot open output file a.exe: Permission denied
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 23:57:43 +0100
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Hi Ethan,

is the program still running?
A running executable is locked from overwriting by e.g. the linker
under most unixes, and when not, I've seen spectacular crashes 8-)

Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms AT icon-scm DOT com)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Ethan Mallove [SMTP:emallove AT yahoo DOT com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, March 12, 2002 23:44
> To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject:	cannot open output file a.exe: Permission denied
> 
> I was trying to compile a simple multi-file C++
> program when i got this error message:
> 
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/2.95.3-5/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld
> :
> cannot open output file a.exe: Permission denied
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> i moved all the files into a different directory and
> abracadabra the error message didn't occur.  What was
> happening when i was getting the "permission denied"
> error?
> 
> -ethan
> 
	[Heribert]  [snip]


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