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Re: Oddities with file deletion on CIFS drive
--On Wednesday, September 08, 2010 6:37 PM -0400 "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <>
wrote:
$ ls -l
total 104
-r-xr-xr-x 1 ???????? ???????? 1362 2010-09-08 13:31 BUILD_EVO_template
<snip>
I think you need to look at why the user that created the files in the
first place isn't known to Cygwin. If you can solve that problem, you
may find the rest falls into place.
No clue, I assume it is some bug in cygwin, since this happens to any file
created on this drive via Cygwin.
build@zre-win-002 /cygdrive/z/current/WINDOWS
$ whoami
build
build@zre-win-002 /cygdrive/z/current/WINDOWS
$ ls -l blah
ls: cannot access blah: No such file or directory
build@zre-win-002 /cygdrive/z/current/WINDOWS
$ touch blah
l
build@zre-win-002 /cygdrive/z/current/WINDOWS
$ ls -l blah
-rw-r--r-- 1 ???????? ???????? 0 2010-09-08 15:45 blah
build@zre-win-002 /cygdrive/z/current/WINDOWS
$ rm blah
build@zre-win-002 /cygdrive/z/current/WINDOWS
$
--Quanah
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