"Joe Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Exactly the issue. > I see the problem here is cygwin's partial POSIX complience. However, > Windows NT had a design goal of allowing a complient implementation > of POSIX to be implmented in a subsystem (along with userespace > utilities). > > So it should be possible to get unlink() to work as like a POSIX unlink > using raw NT kernel calls. > Since Cygwin has dropped support for pre-NT systems, swithing to that > seems > to be the correct thing to do. > > I'll discuss this with the cygwin team. > > Regardless, the exact same issue will likely exist on the windows side. > It seems likely that a fix for the Windows side may fix the cygwin issue. >
Looks like the fix needed for cygwin's unlink was checked in two days ago. The problem should automatically disappear in the next cygwin release. _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
