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Re: cygwin 1.3.3 - fchdir() problem?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Corinna Vinschen" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: "cygwin" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 5:35 PM
Subject: Re: cygwin 1.3.3 - fchdir() problem?


> On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 12:50:12PM +0200, Uwe H. Steinfeld wrote:
> > open (somedir, O_RDONLY) always gives error 13 (permission denied) if
> > somedir exists, and error 2 (no such file or directory) otherwise.
> >
> > This is standard Win32 (mis-)behavior. From MS documentation:
> > A return value of -1 indicates an error, in which case errno is set to
one
> > of the following values:
> > EACCES Tried to open read-only file for writing, or file's sharing mode
does
> > not allow specified operations, or given path is directory
>
> Also quoted from MSDN:
>
>     Windows NT/2000 or later: You can obtain a handle to a directory by
>     setting the FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS flag. A directory handle can
>     be passed to some functions in place of a file handle.
>
> Did you actually try it using the below test application in Cygwin?
> Or are you talking about 9x?  Then you've lost, naturally.
>
> Corinna

Corinna,
I used your test application - but it's 9x.
I've lost.

Uwe

(In the meantime I solved the original problem in fileutils by removing the
check for fchdir() in configure.)


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