Re: permission denied.....

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 07:47:10PM +0100, Alan Hourihane wrote:
>On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 02:42:11PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 01:49:15PM +0100, Alan Hourihane wrote:
>> >As per original email - SP6a.
>> >
>> >Harold - forgot to mention, this isn't a problem with the build for XFree86,
>> >this is Cygwin specific, so cross-compilational has nothing to do with the
>> >problem. The problem just shows up when compiling XFree86.
>> >
>> >My guess is that the cygwin1.dll is returning an -EACCES message back to
>> >userland, and it manifests itself on NT4.
>> >
>> >I was really just enquiring if people had seen this on their systems. It
>> >seems I should ask this question deeper on the cygwin list.
>> 
>> Running the process under strace would produce a voluminous amount of output
>> but it would probably pinpoint the problem:
>> 
>>     strace -ostrace.out -b65536 make
>> 
>> or whatever.
>> 
>Thanks Chris. I'll have to incorporate that into the build somehow as it
>only happens occasionally.
>
>I'll let you know. 

Btw, the -bxxx option specifies buffering.  You can probably make that number
a couple of megabytes.  That should make things work faster.  It will still
be quite slow, though.

cgf