From: Douglas Coup <dcoup@obj-sys.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: rm -f behavior
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 18:12:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <535AA56F.40501@obj-sys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140425154702.GH5666@calimero.vinschen.de>
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On 4/25/2014 11:47 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> Please don't top-post. Thanks.
>
>
> On Apr 25 11:30, Douglas Coup wrote:
>> I downloaded the x86/cygwin-inst-20140425.tar.xz file. I assume all
>> I need to do is run tar xvf against this file? From the output it
>> certainly looked like it installed the files.
> No. Just download the DLL and only install the DLL in place of the old
> DLL. Installing the tar inst file under Cygwin doesn't effectively
> replace the Cygwin DLL. You should exit all(!) Cygwin processes, mopve
> the release DLL out of the way, and move the new DLL in place.
Good shooting, Corinna. The problem has gone away with the new DLL.
>
>> But I'm not seeing any difference. I'm still seeing the permission
>> denied error on rm -f in the scenarios I've described.
>>
>> Incidentally, the sequence below should have nothing to do with Perforce.
>>
>> $ touch dac.txt
>> $ chmod 444 dac.txt
>> $ rm -f dac.txt
>>
>> This is being done completely outside of any Perforce workspaces.
> Sorry, this isn't helpful. Make sure you're *really* using the correct
> Cygwin DLL from the snapshot (uname -a), and if the above sequence
> really fails to work, first call `attrib dac.txt' before calling rm to
> see if the R/O attribute is set, then call rm under strace again and
> send the strace. Also, if the R/O attribute gets set in the above
> sequence, I have to know where it comes from. As I said, Cygwin does
> not set the flag at all for normal files, not even in chmod.
>
>
> Corinna
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-25 18:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-23 20:43 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 [this message]
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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