1.7 installation failed (on network drive?)

[Thomas Wolff]

Dave Korn wrote:
> Thomas Wolff wrote:
>   
>> Selected local directory: H:\cygwin17p1
>> mkdir:NtCreateFile -> C0000022
>> mbox note: Couldn't create directory H:\cygwin17p1, sorry.  (Is drive full or read-only?)
>>     
>   So that's coming from here:
>
> 	  status = NtCreateFile (&dir,
> 	  			 STANDARD_RIGHTS_ALL | FILE_LIST_DIRECTORY,
> 				 &attr, &io, NULL, FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY,
> 				 FILE_SHARE_VALID_FLAGS, FILE_CREATE,
> 				 FILE_DIRECTORY_FILE
> 				 | FILE_SYNCHRONOUS_IO_NONALERT
> 				 | FILE_OPEN_FOR_BACKUP_INTENT, NULL, 0);
>
>   Interesting.  Does it possibly succeed if you remove the
> FILE_OPEN_FOR_BACKUP_INTENT flag?
>   
Unfortunately not.
Any other flags I might remove?

Also I noticed: parameter 5, AllocationSize, should be an int, while 
NULL is a pointer.

Thomas