Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Message-ID: <4162EFCF.2030901@x-ray.at>
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 21:02:39 +0200
From: Reini Urban <rurban AT x-ray DOT at>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040817
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Weird bug with cp -f [solution that works for me]
References: <000601c4a90d$0d18bad0$210110ac AT NEEEEEEE> <20041003040342 DOT GA25772 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <20041003041441 DOT GB25772 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <20041004231101 DOT E08D01B3F9 AT cgf DOT cx> <20041005000738 DOT GA6013 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <cjtvu4$nnd$1 AT sea DOT gmane DOT org> <4162A034 DOT 253DACBF AT dessent DOT net> <cju9j6$jv2$1 AT sea DOT gmane DOT org> <cjub0k$oh3$1 AT sea DOT gmane DOT org> <4162B3E8 DOT A3E4E9B AT dessent DOT net>
In-Reply-To: <4162B3E8.A3E4E9B@dessent.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-IsSubscribed: yes
Note-from-DJ: This may be spam

Brian Dessent schrieb:
> Dave Miles wrote:
>>>Since re-starting the system and repeating the copy on drive O: (the
>>>newly created NTFS partition that 'cp' worked in) the "magically created
>>>directory" now appears when using 'cp'.
>>
>>So I tried to re-format it and was denied. On investigation
>>it turned out that Norton System Works had protection enabled
>>on this drive. I disabled it and 'cp' now works again. Also
>>if you check the exclusions on a drive that Norton is
>>protecting you'll see that '\temp' is excluded.
>>
>>So for me at least disabling Norton Protection on a folder
>>or drive that I intend to use Cygwin on is the way to go.
> 
> Thanks for the resolution, for the archives' sake.
> 
> The moral of the story is "Expect illogical issues to crop up if you run
> invasive programs that install low-level hooks all throughout various
> system APIs."

"... when they come from norton or symantec."

I successfully run perfectly invasive programs which install low-level 
hooks all throughout various system APIs without any problem for years.

Sysinternals hooks, AVPersonal virus guard. But I wouldn't expect this 
to work without any problems if the name symantec or mcafee is involved.

-- 
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/