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Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 12:12:48 -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 11:24:29PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 07:28:21PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>>>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.

No.  You can't, AFAIK, use CreateFile to unlink directories.  But then,
you can't, AFAIK, use DeleteFile to unlink them either.

cgf

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