Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 23:24:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Problem with database engine on cygwin In-Reply-To: <20030409004727.GF26203@redhat.com> Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. -- Leto II -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/