rm seems to fail

Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Wed Jan 14 04:09:00 GMT 2009


greenup greenup wrote:
> broken again/still.
> 
> On 1/13/09, Mark J. Reed wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 2:52 PM, greenup wrote:
>>  > your perl test was a nice try; but it also did not remove the file,
>>  > which is revealing.
>> I should have included a return code check:
>>
>>  perl -e 'unlink("goo/foo") or die $!'
>>
> dz@w2 ~
> $ perl -e 'unlink("goo/foo") or die $!'
> 
> dz@w2 ~
> $ echo $?
> 0
> 
> dz@w2 ~
> $ ls -la goo
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x+  2 dz         mkgroup-l-d 0 Jan 13 14:47 .
> drwxrwx---+ 25 Administrators SYSTEM      0 Jan 13 14:46 ..
> -r--------   1 dz         mkgroup-l-d 0 Jan 13 14:47 foo

Any luck on the BLODA front?

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