Undead hard link

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 11:34:00AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> I inadvertantly made a hard link to emacs about an hour ago, and now it
> refuses to die. ln -f doesn't work, rm doesn't work, windows delete
> doesn't work. And there's no unlink anywhere in sight. I'm running
> cygwin under W2K on an NTFS partition. I had thought that the problem
> might be the file access settings, but access rights (under cygwin) are
> showing up as rwx for owner which would be me. Windows permissions list
> rwx for "Everyone". The link is named "edit" and it points to
> "/bin/emacs-20.7/bin/emacs.exe". I've tried:
> 
> rm edit
> rm: cannot unlink `emacs.exe': Permission denied
> 
> ln -f /bin/emacs-20.7/bin/emacs.exe edit
> rm: cannot unlink `emacs.exe': Permission denied

Is an emacs process running while you're trying to remove the link?
That's a problem in Windows. Stop emacs and try again.

Corinna

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