X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4552A65C.4080500@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 22:54:04 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060916 Fedora/1.5.0.7-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.7 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: unable to remove hard link References: <31b7d2790611081448x1a3887d3lf6daa01a233e40de AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> In-Reply-To: <31b7d2790611081448x1a3887d3lf6daa01a233e40de@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > I did some unfortunate experimenting with compiling different versions > of Sleuthkit and Autopsy (http://www.sleuthkit.org) before they > officially started supporting cygwin. > > Autopsy wipes out your PATH when it runs to make sure you are using > the correct version of the utilities. > > This also means, it could not see any of the Cygwin dlls that the > tools were compiled with (they've implemented intelligent work-arounds > since then). > > I tried hard linking the various dlls it needed in its designated bin > directory. > > The experiment isn't important (since they now support Cygwin out of > the box), what is important is that I cannot delete my hard links. > > Actually, I can get it to go the recycle bin, but it won't leave the > recycle bin. > > I can 'restore' them but I cannot empty it. > > Looking through my bash history file, I see I did: > chmod a+rwx cygz.dll > unlink cygz.dll > > This let me delete the file as far as getting it to the recycle bin, > but that is as far as I can go. > > The specific error from Windows is: > Error Deleting File or Folder > Cannot delete cygz: Access is denied. > Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is > not currently in use. > > Since the file is in my recycle bin, this message makes no sense. > > Is there some way I can make the original cygz.dll forget all about a > couple of its hard links because ls still shows it has 3 total instead > of 1 like every other single dll. From your cygcheck.out: Warning: There are multiple cygwin1.dlls on your path Get rid of the one in 'c:\Tools\Foundstone\'. This is most likely your problem. Get rid of "ntea" in your CYGWIN environment variable. You don't need it and it could get in your way. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/