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Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 20:47:27 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Problem with database engine on cygwin
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On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 07:28:21PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>Larry,
>
>It may be more complicated than that.  unlink() calls DeleteFile(), and
>who knows what happens in the guts of it.  For instance, I'm having a
>permission problem with deleting files on a Samba share from inside of
>applications (but no problems deleting them from the shell).  I've traced
>it as far as the DeleteFile() call, which fails in the former case and
>succeeds in the latter.  Go figure...

The latest version of cygwin should try to delete files via CreatFile before
resorting to DeleteFile.  Does CreateFile fail also?

cgf

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