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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 $!'
>
> I suspect that will still run silently without removing the file,
> indicating that the problem is indeed in the unlink(2) system call.
> Which *should* succeed in any case; unlink() doesn't care about the
> permissions of the target file, only of the directory containing it.
>
> I see your original message confirmed that you were running Cygwin's
> rm, btw; sorry for the extra hoop-jumping there.
>
> So at this point I'm at a loss. I'm running the same version of
> Cygwin (though on Vista, not XP) on the same type of filesystem (NTFS)
> and not seeing the issue. Is there any way this could be
> BLODA-induced?
Sounds like it. His cygcheck output names one possible source of conflict:
> Potential app conflicts:
>
> Sonic Solutions burning software containing DLA component
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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?
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