Shared folsers under Vista

Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Mon Aug 23 03:53:00 GMT 2010


On 8/22/2010 10:19 PM, Steve Holden wrote:
> Folders that I create with Cygwin using mkdir appear to be shared - sort
> of. They are denoted with the shared folder icon, and when I use Windows
> Explorer to delete them I get the warning about the folder being shared.
>
> When I look at the folder's properties, however, Explorer insists the
> the folder is not shared.
>
> Can someone explain how to avoid the sharing in the first place? It
> doesn't seem to happen to everyone.

<http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-11/msg00456.html>?

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