Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com To: Jerrold Heyman Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: fileutils-4.0-3 References: From: Andrew Markebo Date: 13 Jun 2001 09:05:51 +0200 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Lines: 30 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Shouldn't you do something like du -k //d/path/to/file ?? /A / Jerrold Heyman wrote: | I've made the fileutils-4.0-3 version of du available to | my users, and I have one who is reporting the following problem | running: | | du -k d:\path\to\file | "Permission Denied" | | There is another process that has the file open, and they are | using the du in a periodic loop to make sure that the disk doesn't | fill up. If they kill the process that has the file open, then the | du works successfully. | | Is there something within Cygwin.dll that keeps du from successfully | accessing the file while another process is accessing it?? | | jerry | Jerry Heyman 919.224.1442 | Tivoli Systems |"Software is the | Build Infrastructure Architect | 3901 S Miami Blvd | difference between | Jerry.Heyman@tivoli.com | RTP, NC 27709 | hardware and reality" | http://www.acm.org/~heymanj | | | -- | Want to unsubscribe from this list? | Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple