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Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 13:02:01 -0400
To: "Dylan Cuthbert" <dylan AT q-games DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: *** CreateFileMapping, Win32 error 5.  Terminating.
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At 02:03 AM 10/9/2003, Dylan Cuthbert you wrote:
>Hi there,
>
>I updated Cygwin yesterday and now I get this error whenever I try to do
>*anything* with cygwin:
>
>d:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** CreateFileMapping, Win32 error 5.  Terminating.
>
>What's odd is this doesn't happen immediately, it happens after a cron task
>that uses rsync to make backups to an rsync server has run.  I think it
>probably has more to do with the cron daemon than rsync but god knows what
>the problem is.
>
>I've checked other messages on this subject and they seem to refer to file
>permissions etc. but my entire cygwin directory tree is accessible to any
>valid user on my machine and ls -l shows all permissions as rwx.
>
>Does someone have any clues as disabling my auto backups isn't a good
>solution? :-)


Did you see this whole thread?

<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg00447.html>


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