Access Denied (XP Home SP1, cygwin-1.3.15

[Joel Rubin]

I have the same problem with several Cygwin programs including wget
and unzip. The "access denied" survives a reboot.

So it seems that Cygwin is creating files with this problem. I have
only one user with, of course, administrative rights.

11/08/2002  11:49 AM         1,080,807 cygwin-1.3.15-2.tar.bz2

bash-2.05b$ ex temp.txt
"temp.txt" [New File]
Entering Ex mode.  Type "visual" to go to Normal mode.
:a
This is a test
Test
.
:wq
bash-2.05b$ exit
Now back in cmd.exe:

C:\TEMP>temp.txt
Access is denied.

C:\TEMP>copy temp.txt a.
txt
        1 file(s) copied.

C:\TEMP>del temp.txt

C:\TEMP>ren a.txt temp.t
xt

C:\TEMP>temp.txt

C:\TEMP>