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Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 23:24:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Problem with database engine on cygwin
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On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> 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

Did the same changes propagate to directories?  Because I'm actually
having this problem with removing CVS lock directories.  Updating to
cygwin-1.3.22 didn't help.
	Igor
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