Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-apps-owner AT cygwin DOT com List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: RE: setup.exe and inuse files for X X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 09:58:28 +1000 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Robert Collins" To: "Corinna Vinschen" , "Cygwin-Xfree" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g42Nwdr24510 > -----Original Message----- > From: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com] > Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 1:44 AM > To: CygWin Apps; Cygwin-Xfree > Subject: Re: setup.exe and inuse files for X > > > On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 04:58:36PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote: > > I think I've got a handle on this... looks like read only > (-r--r--r--) > > files don't delete properly, so setup fails to overwrite them. > > > > Patches gratefully accepted, it's going in the TODO for now. > > I recall having sent a patch for this a few months ago to the > cygwin-apps list... Yes. And I had implemented similar code. (Including the SetFileAttributes call). I'm not sure why it is still failing to do what it should. Rob