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Re: 1.7 file permissions changes
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:57:29 +0100
- Subject: Re: 1.7 file permissions changes
- References: <377225.58673.qm@web65414.mail.ac4.yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Nov 12 10:12, Eric Benson wrote:
> Recently I installed Windows 7 and Cygwin 1.7 from scratch
> and rebuilt all of the pieces of my system using the latest versions
> of all components. The encoder process is now failing because it is
> unable to remove the directory
> that was created by the Autoit script. The Cygwin process can read
> files created by the Windows process just fine, but it cannot create
> new files in that directory, nor can it delete any files or
> directories created by the Windows process. I have complete control
> of all directory and file creation on both sides of the
> Cygwin/Windows divide. Is there something I can do on either side so
> that the directory I create in Windows (using Autoit's DirCreate
> function) can be modified and deleted by Cygwin's Unix API?
Without more details I hazard a guess: The Windows process creates the
directory without permissions for you to delete the directory or files
in that directory and you're running under UAC.
Corinna
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