From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 96570 invoked by alias); 1 Sep 2015 19:48:40 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 90638 invoked by uid 89); 1 Sep 2015 19:48:37 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05,FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-ig0-f175.google.com Received: from mail-ig0-f175.google.com (HELO mail-ig0-f175.google.com) (209.85.213.175) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-GCM-SHA256 encrypted) ESMTPS; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 19:48:36 +0000 Received: by igcpb10 with SMTP id pb10so9634669igc.1 for ; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 12:48:34 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.50.50.198 with SMTP id e6mr4353216igo.13.1441136914818; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 12:48:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.107.14.130 with HTTP; Tue, 1 Sep 2015 12:48:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2015 19:48:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: "permission denied" issues when removing files/folders created by cygwin From: Roger Pack To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-09/txt/msg00015.txt.bz2 As a note, after using cygwin to build some libraries (worked well, thanks team!) when trying to delete a folder via windows explorer, I got the message "Destination folder access denied, you need to confirm this action" (followed by a UAC prompt) and also "Delete folder, Invalid MS-DOS function" It appears the problem lies with creating a file named "NUL" windows utilities just don't know how to deal with it (you can recreate it by creating a folder, then from cygwin bash $ touch NUL) then try and remove the folder with windows explorer. I would not have expected cygwin to allow itself the privilege of creating files that are unremovable by windows explorer, but I just thought I'd throw it out there. Cheers! -roger- -- 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