On Sep 10 10:48, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> --On Friday, September 10, 2010 7:09 PM +0200 Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> >> Let me know if there is anything else I can provide.
> >
> > I'm not sure. I don't think so. The problem is that the unlink(2)
> > function in Cygwin does not get any error code from any of the OS
> > functions it calls. So, from the Cygwin POV everything worked fine.
> > How is it supposed to know that anything has gone wrong, if the
> > underlying OS doesn't tell?
>
> Heh, magic I guess. If I mount the drive as a CIFS drive from a Linux
> box, I can delete the files just fine, so for now that gives me a
> workaround (I'll move my deletion process to a Linux box).
This morning I had an idea. While we were looking into the ACL, we
neglected the DOS attributes. When you call `attrib' on one of the
files for which you didn't call chmod yet, is the R/O attribute set?
If so, it *could* explain why Cygwin thought it has successfully deleted
the file, but it hasn't. I also might have a workaround for this.