X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=4.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,BOTNET,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,TW_RW,TW_WX X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-id: <5025C431.7050201@cygwin.com> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 22:32:17 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Side-by-side configuration is incorrect reported as permission denied References: In-reply-to: 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-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 On 8/10/2012 7:31 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > I use Cygwin a lot. And I kick off Windows processes a lot. Recently I've > been having a problem with my system but from Cygwin all I see is > "permission denied": > > Ltsdo-adefaria:cd /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/IBM/RationalSDLC/Clearquest > Ltsdo-adefaria:ls -l clearquest.exe > -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 Administrators clearusers 245760 Jun 2 2011 > clearquest.exe* > Ltsdo-adefaria:clearquest > bash: ./clearquest: Permission denied > Ltsdo-adefaria: > > However if I use cmd the real error message comes out: > > Ltsdo-adefaria:cmd /c clearquest > The application has failed to start because its side-by-side > configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log or > use the command-line sxstrace.exe tool for more detail. > > I know that this "side-by-side configuration is incorrect" is a > configuration error on my machine and I need to fix it, but shouldn't > Cygwin's exec(2) report the "side-by-side" error instead of the more > erroneous "Permission denied" error? Cygwin doesn't report Windows error codes. It reports POSIX ones. I have no idea why there would be a POSIX error code for side-by-side errors but if there were, then reporting that is more appropriate. -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple