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From: Michael Enright <mike@kmcardiff.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: "permission denied" issues when removing files/folders created by cygwin
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2015 20:05:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOC2fq99pDSC6uta2f3bc4oCb1G5UZExK+RswaEjwutAfYN_sQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL1QdWeOZvgnQtkt5tKFQtpFvynZjYL9hiUJ9d=FKGqNT7FR7w@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Roger Pack  wrote:
> 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.

The utilities "know" how to deal with it, given their design:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2003/10/22/55388.aspx

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-01 20:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-01 19:48 Roger Pack
2015-09-01 20:05 ` Michael Enright [this message]
2015-09-01 20:32   ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-09-03 15:10     ` Roger Pack
2015-09-03 15:32 ` Achim Gratz

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