On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 01:20:50AM +0100, Reinier Post wrote: >On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 04:39:39PM -0500, Eliot Moss wrote: >> I wonder if some process has created the file in >> question and still has it open. Then a call to >> create, and a call to unlink, will both fail. > >But the call to open is failing (the fd returned is -1), >which is why the unlink() is executed in the first place, >and it does *not* fail. > >My vote for Stephan Mueller's suggestion that the 'aux' in the >name is causing the problem - but this still doesn't explaing why >the unlink() claims to succeed (returning 0); the loop within tar >should be changed to deal with this situation in any case.
No, it shouldn't. We are not going to patch every conceivable program to understand MS-DOS special files. This won't be a problem with Cygwin 1.7. If you want a fix change to that. cgf -- 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
