Oddities with file deletion on CIFS drive

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Friday, September 10, 2010 7:09 PM +0200 Corinna Vinschen wrote:

>> Let me know if there is anything else I can provide.
>
> I'm not sure.  I don't think so.  The problem is that the unlink(2)
> function in Cygwin does not get any error code from any of the OS
> functions it calls.  So, from the Cygwin POV everything worked fine.
> How is it supposed to know that anything has gone wrong, if the
> underlying OS doesn't tell?

Heh, magic I guess.  If I mount the drive as a CIFS drive from a Linux box,
I can delete the files just fine, so for now that gives me a workaround
(I'll move my deletion process to a Linux box).

--Quanah

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