--- Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 16 10:09, Lionel Barnett wrote: > > --- Lionel Barnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Still no joy on this problem (Cygwin ver 1.5.11) > > > > > > bash -c "cat << EOF" > > > > > > fails with: > > > > > > cat: -: Permission denied > > > > > > The corresponding command under sh, tcsh or zsh causes no > problem. > > > > Seems like it could be a permissions problem with /tmp. Lines 1162 > - > > 1164 in the strace output (attached) are: > > > > 743 120125 [main] cat 2668 fhandler_base::raw_read: ReadFile > > /tmp/sh-thd-1095306567 failed, Win32 error 59 > > 1746 121871 [main] cat 2668 seterrno_from_win_error: > > /netrel/src/cygwin-1.5.11-1/winsup/cygwin/fhandler.cc:263 windows > error > > 59 > > 756 122627 [main] cat 2668 geterrno_from_win_error: unknown > windows > > error 59, setting errno to 13 > > That looks really weird. Did you notice that win32 error 59 means > "An unexpected network error occurred." ?
Yes, I was aware of that. > Does that give a hint to you? Um, not really... except that it appears the problem doesn't arise if /tmp is accessed locally rather than over the network. However, I constantly read/write/execute files all over the network via Cygwin tools and have not encountered any problems previously. Is there something special about /tmp that I am not aware of? Lionel ===== Lionel B ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/