On Nov 12 10:12, Eric Benson wrote: > Recently I installed Windows 7 and Cygwin 1.7 from scratch > and rebuilt all of the pieces of my system using the latest versions > of all components. The encoder process is now failing because it is > unable to remove the directory > that was created by the Autoit script. The Cygwin process can read > files created by the Windows process just fine, but it cannot create > new files in that directory, nor can it delete any files or > directories created by the Windows process. I have complete control > of all directory and file creation on both sides of the > Cygwin/Windows divide. Is there something I can do on either side so > that the directory I create in Windows (using Autoit's DirCreate > function) can be modified and deleted by Cygwin's Unix API?
Without more details I hazard a guess: The Windows process creates the directory without permissions for you to delete the directory or files in that directory and you're running under UAC. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
