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* rm -f behavior
@ 2014-04-23 20:43 Douglas Coup
  2014-04-24 14:23 ` Corinna Vinschen
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 16+ messages in thread
From: Douglas Coup @ 2014-04-23 20:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cygwin

I run Cygwin on a Windows 8.1 workstation.

I just recently started noticing that the following sequence doesn't work:

$ touch dac.txt
$ chmod 444 dac.txt
$ rm -f dac.txt

The rm -f command gets a permission denied error.  This just started 
happening recently, and I'm thinking it's because of an update to Windows.

If I do chmod u+w dac.txt before the rm -f command, then the command works.

The same sequence executed on a different machine that runs Windows 7 
and hasn't been updated in a while works fine.  And it used to work fine 
on my workstation.

Is anyone else seeing this behavior?

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2014-04-23 20:43 rm -f behavior Douglas Coup
2014-04-24 14:23 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-04-24 15:35   ` Douglas Coup
2014-04-24 16:36     ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-04-24 16:45       ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-04-24 17:10       ` Douglas Coup
2014-04-25 12:16       ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-04-25 14:23         ` Douglas Coup
2014-04-25 14:50           ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-04-25 15:30             ` Douglas Coup
2014-04-25 15:47               ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-04-25 15:57                 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-04-25 18:12                 ` Douglas Coup
2014-04-25 19:16                   ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-04-25 19:52                     ` Douglas Coup
2014-04-25 19:59                       ` Corinna Vinschen

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