X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <496D0F63.8080401@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:02:11 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20090101 Remi/2.0.0.19-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.19 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: rm seems to fail References: <5520d94f0901130852l310a9dfdk9821c26458d8d5e AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> <5520d94f0901130901y66a7df50yca7e586998a3bea3 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> <5520d94f0901130916l7669d8capa39587365237da4f AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> <5520d94f0901131057o3cbb3915h95b824942d95be6c AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> <5520d94f0901131152u3a3f8ae3y64654d175b5b37a4 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Mark J. Reed wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 2:52 PM, greenup wrote: >> your perl test was a nice try; but it also did not remove the file, >> which is revealing. > > I should have included a return code check: > > perl -e 'unlink("goo/foo") or die $!' > > I suspect that will still run silently without removing the file, > indicating that the problem is indeed in the unlink(2) system call. > Which *should* succeed in any case; unlink() doesn't care about the > permissions of the target file, only of the directory containing it. > > I see your original message confirmed that you were running Cygwin's > rm, btw; sorry for the extra hoop-jumping there. > > So at this point I'm at a loss. I'm running the same version of > Cygwin (though on Vista, not XP) on the same type of filesystem (NTFS) > and not seeing the issue. Is there any way this could be > BLODA-induced? Sounds like it. His cygcheck output names one possible source of conflict: > Potential app conflicts: > > Sonic Solutions burning software containing DLA component -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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/