Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
greenup greenup wrote:
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
greenup greenup wrote:
broken again/still.
On 1/13/09, Mark J. Reed wrote:
Any luck on the BLODA front?
Afraid I don't know BLODA, but disabling the virus scanner for a few
I notice someone else is having problems with their X lock files; that
was one of the things that got me started fiddling with rm. Today is
busy for me, so I'm not sure that I'll get to strace/etc, but
hopefully tomorrow. I checked another box in my house, that seems to
be working fine with
greenup greenup wrote:
I notice someone else is having problems with their X lock files; that
was one of the things that got me started fiddling with rm. Today is
busy for me, so I'm not sure that I'll get to strace/etc, but
hopefully tomorrow. I checked another box in my house, that seems to
On 1/14/09, Larry Hall wrote:
greenup greenup wrote:
I notice someone else is having problems with their X lock files; that
was one of the things that got me started fiddling with rm. Today is
busy for me, so I'm not sure that I'll get to strace/etc, but
hopefully tomorrow. I checked
I seem to have problems with rm.
specifically, even when using -f it won't remove files, if the
permissions are restricted to read-only. -f is supposed to be the I
don't care, just do it switch.
At one point moved my whole c:\cygwin hierarchy to a backup,
rebooted and reinstalled, to try and get
oh, I forgot to mention: right after doing the rm, the return code is
success, even though it failed to actually remove the file.
d...@w2 ~
$ rm -f goo/foo
d...@w2 ~
$ echo $?
0
On 1/13/09, greenup greenup gree...@gmail.com wrote:
...
d...@w2 ~
$ mkdir goo
d...@w2 ~
$ touch goo/foo
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:16 PM, greenup wrote:
oh, I forgot to mention: right after doing the rm, the return code is
success, even though it failed to actually remove the file.
rm with -f is silent about certain types of errors, usually of the
file doesn't exist variety. So that sounds like
On 1/13/09, Mark J. Reed markjr...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:16 PM, greenup wrote:
oh, I forgot to mention: right after doing the rm, the return code is
success, even though it failed to actually remove the file.
rm with -f is silent about certain types of errors, usually
oops. forgot to scrub mail headers for email addrs. Sorry about
that. does the list archive scrub?
-greenup
On 1/13/09, greenup greenup wrote:
On 1/13/09, Mark J. Reed wrote:
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:16 PM, greenup wrote:
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On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 1:57 PM, greenup wrote:
d...@w2 ~
$ rm -v goo/foo
rm: remove write-protected regular empty file `goo/foo'? y
removed `goo/foo'
d...@w2 ~
$ echo $?
0
d...@w2 ~
$ ls -la goo
total 0
drwxr-xr-x+ 2 dz mkgroup-l-d 0 Jan 13 08:10 .
drwxrwx---+ 23
not a universal problem is good and bad... good that this is
widespread, bad that it's harder to debug on just my system.
I renamed the other rm, (after checking to see if it worked... it
does, but even though it can cope with forward slashes, it hates
/cygdrive/d/...
I also tried backing down
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 2:52 PM, greenup wrote:
your perl test was a nice try; but it also did not remove the file,
which is revealing.
I should have included a return code check:
perl -e 'unlink(goo/foo) or die $!'
I suspect that will still run silently without removing the file,
indicating
Mark J. Reed wrote:
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 2:52 PM, greenup wrote:
your perl test was a nice try; but it also did not remove the file,
which is revealing.
I should have included a return code check:
perl -e 'unlink(goo/foo) or die $!'
I suspect that will still run silently without removing
On 1/13/09, Mark J. Reed wrote:
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 2:52 PM, greenup wrote:
your perl test was a nice try; but it also did not remove the file,
which is revealing.
I should have included a return code check:
perl -e 'unlink(goo/foo) or die $!'
the return code check worked!! (removed
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
Mark J. Reed wrote:
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 2:52 PM, greenup wrote:
So at this point I'm at a loss. I'm running the same version of
Cygwin (though on Vista, not XP) on the same type of filesystem (NTFS)
and not seeing the issue. Is there any way this could be
greenup greenup wrote:
On 1/13/09, Mark J. Reed wrote:
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 2:52 PM, greenup wrote:
your perl test was a nice try; but it also did not remove the file,
which is revealing.
I should have included a return code check:
perl -e 'unlink(goo/foo) or die $!'
the return
On 1/13/09, Dave Korn wrote:
greenup greenup wrote:
On 1/13/09, Mark J. Reed wrote:
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 2:52 PM, greenup wrote:
your perl test was a nice try; but it also did not remove the file,
which is revealing.
I should have included a return code check:
perl -e
broken again/still.
On 1/13/09, Mark J. Reed wrote:
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 2:52 PM, greenup wrote:
your perl test was a nice try; but it also did not remove the file,
which is revealing.
I should have included a return code check:
perl -e 'unlink(goo/foo) or die $!'
d...@w2 ~
$ perl
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From: greenup greenup
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 3:03 PM
This machine uses Mcaffee OAS. And it appears I don't have the power
to disable it even to test. Mixed feelings about that... there are
some users that would leave it off a lot...
You can
greenup greenup wrote:
broken again/still.
On 1/13/09, Mark J. Reed wrote:
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 2:52 PM, greenup wrote:
your perl test was a nice try; but it also did not remove the file,
which is revealing.
I should have included a return code check:
perl -e 'unlink(goo/foo) or die
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
greenup greenup wrote:
broken again/still.
On 1/13/09, Mark J. Reed wrote:
Any luck on the BLODA front?
Afraid I don't know BLODA, but disabling the virus scanner for a few
minutes didn't work.
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greenup greenup wrote:
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
greenup greenup wrote:
broken again/still.
On 1/13/09, Mark J. Reed wrote:
Any luck on the BLODA front?
Afraid I don't know BLODA, but disabling the virus scanner for a few
minutes didn't work.
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