From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 101790 invoked by alias); 1 Sep 2015 20:05:55 -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 101780 invoked by uid 89); 1 Sep 2015 20:05:54 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-yk0-f172.google.com Received: from mail-yk0-f172.google.com (HELO mail-yk0-f172.google.com) (209.85.160.172) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-GCM-SHA256 encrypted) ESMTPS; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 20:05:53 +0000 Received: by ykax124 with SMTP id x124so1819473yka.2 for ; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 13:05:51 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=ChgPnTbXrtUwugTrKUBF9DrigQMyDe+nFO3RHseXuak=; b=cjGCtRr5nH9AdMogltx5lEKnFHDVTDdFhf3CpcHgBIQ7sCfKdbGnU9x5qqj1aLP8Qg wTbJFWuLkAAoW8Ubi+X1PbDVq0buU39rehzcw3zfvm/oXVMmaqzS2xpGHDfZod0rcFNN Bub/SiVA4Ts06MY/0ay7M/Jjhts9wohjXlMC6pGHKplUq9IdsQvQm/tz+0IZ6IlD7VM5 RqzFmbYAG6C218Y2xlMDClJAnJfF08K2CVC7+CSl7KH/X4t9+wKxSzmJGTLnvnBtydm8 OkFgX7DSb1RBt9BZNOGQXmV5SkhGTD8TNdkjRnhwjzpndkiPT61OUzt4JCcf2nTjkUhc M9JQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnd57P+rA4sGDkG/rVNi9zVBkIDjF8B1t9DREl8KEln1RSQ2DFqidia6dg7v8FpelcYWTR4 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.170.62.133 with SMTP id e127mr285771yke.81.1441137951625; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 13:05:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.37.42.194 with HTTP; Tue, 1 Sep 2015 13:05:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2015 20:05:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: "permission denied" issues when removing files/folders created by cygwin From: Michael Enright To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-09/txt/msg00016.txt.bz2 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 -- 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