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From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@NexGo.DE>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: "permission denied" issues when removing files/folders created by cygwin
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2015 15:32:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20150903T172923-959@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL1QdWeOZvgnQtkt5tKFQtpFvynZjYL9hiUJ9d=FKGqNT7FR7w@mail.gmail.com>

Roger Pack <rogerdpack2 <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 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.

That is likely a bug in the build system of whatever you were trying to
build, I can't think of any reason why under Cygwin it wouldn't use
/dev/null instead of NUL (that's a device name under Windows for
compatibility with DOS).


Regards,
Achim.


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      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-09-03 15:32 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
2015-09-01 20:32   ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-09-03 15:10     ` Roger Pack
2015-09-03 15:32 ` Achim Gratz [this message]

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