From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Side-by-side configuration is incorrect reported as permission denied
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 10:35:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5025C431.7050201@cygwin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <k045k2$gvk$1@dough.gmane.org>
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
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-11 2:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-11 0:45 Andrew DeFaria
2012-08-11 10:35 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin) [this message]
2012-08-11 17:32 ` Earnie Boyd
2012-08-11 19:23 ` Andrew DeFaria
2012-08-11 19:54 ` Christopher Faylor
2012-08-12 4:24 ` Cliff Hones
2012-08-12 9:07 ` Andrew DeFaria
2012-08-12 12:35 ` Pawel Jasinski
2012-08-12 17:56 ` Christopher Faylor
2012-08-12 19:59 ` Pawel Jasinski
2012-08-12 20:54 ` Earnie Boyd
2012-08-12 21:30 ` Christopher Faylor
2012-08-13 1:05 ` Pawel Jasinski
2012-08-13 8:28 ` Herbert Stocker
2012-08-13 10:05 ` Corinna Vinschen
2012-08-13 12:51 ` Herbert Stocker
2012-08-13 13:11 ` Earnie Boyd
2012-08-13 13:21 ` Corinna Vinschen
2012-08-13 13:28 ` Earnie Boyd
2012-08-13 14:32 ` Corinna Vinschen
2012-08-13 13:51 ` Cliff Hones
2012-08-13 15:15 ` Christopher Faylor
2012-08-13 3:49 ` Andrew DeFaria
2012-08-13 8:48 ` Corinna Vinschen
2012-08-13 14:43 ` Andrew DeFaria
2012-08-13 14:59 ` Corinna Vinschen
2012-08-13 15:01 ` Andrew DeFaria
2012-08-13 15:22 ` Corinna Vinschen
2012-08-13 15:40 ` Andrew DeFaria
2012-08-13 15:33 ` Christopher Faylor
2012-08-13 16:02 ` Andrew DeFaria
2012-08-13 16:19 ` Corinna Vinschen
2012-08-13 17:57 ` Andrew DeFaria
2012-08-14 21:11 ` Andrey Repin
2012-08-15 4:23 ` Christopher Faylor
2012-08-13 18:56 Pawel Jasinski
2012-08-13 19:12 ` Christopher Faylor
2012-08-13 21:49 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-08-14 0:42 ` Pawel Jasinski
2012-08-14 3:12 ` Christopher Faylor
2012-08-14 8:38 ` Eric Blake
2012-08-14 9:16 ` Pawel Jasinski
2012-08-14 15:10 ` Christopher Faylor
2012-08-14 21:37 ` Pawel Jasinski
2012-08-15 5:37 ` Christopher Faylor
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