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Re: 1.7 file permissions changes


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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