setup.exe and inuse files for X
Robert Collins
robert.collins@itdomain.com.au
Thu May 2 16:58:00 GMT 2002
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:cygwin-apps@cygwin.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 1:44 AM
> To: CygWin Apps; Cygwin-Xfree
> Subject: Re: setup.exe and inuse files for X
>
>
> On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 04:58:36PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> > I think I've got a handle on this... looks like read only
> (-r--r--r--)
> > files don't delete properly, so setup fails to overwrite them.
> >
> > Patches gratefully accepted, it's going in the TODO for now.
>
> I recall having sent a patch for this a few months ago to the
> cygwin-apps list...
Yes. And I had implemented similar code. (Including the
SetFileAttributes call).
I'm not sure why it is still failing to do what it should.
Rob
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