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Re: rm -f behavior


I downloaded the x86/cygwin-inst-20140425.tar.xz file. I assume all I need to do is run tar xvf against this file? From the output it certainly looked like it installed the files.

But I'm not seeing any difference. I'm still seeing the permission denied error on rm -f in the scenarios I've described.

Incidentally, the sequence below should have nothing to do with Perforce.

$ touch dac.txt
$ chmod 444 dac.txt
$ rm -f dac.txt

This is being done completely outside of any Perforce workspaces.

Regards,

Doug Coup

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On 4/25/2014 10:50 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Apr 25 10:23, Douglas Coup wrote:
Objective Systems, Inc.
REAL WORLD ASN.1 AND XML SOLUTIONS
Tel: +1 (484) 875-9841
Fax: +1 (484) 875-9830
Toll-free: (877) 307-6855 (USA only)
http://www.obj-sys.com

On 4/25/2014 8:16 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Apr 24 18:36, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Apr 24 11:34, Douglas Coup wrote:
If I do "which rm" and "which chmod", it shows that both commands
resolve to the Cygwin binaries.

The attached rm.notworking.trace file is from an "rm -f dac.txt"
command that gets the permission denied error; i.e., when the
permissions on the file are 444.  Things seem to start going south
at entry 34276.
Gosh, how many ways to fail does transactional NTFS know?
Btw., this is not just the result of creating the file and chmod'ing it
to 444 in Cygwin, is it?  The reason I'm asking is that Cygwin does not
set the DOS R/O bit when chmod'ing the file to 444.  In fact, Cygwin
never sets the R/O bit, except for *.lnk type symlinks.
It doesn't seem to be related specifically to the chmod command.

For example, we use Perforce as our software control system.  The
files in my Perforce workspaces that are under Perforce control are
read-only files unless they're checked out for modification.  In
Cygwin this means the files have a permission mask of 444 out of the
box; no chmod command was done.  If I pick one of those files and
try to do an rm -f on it, I get the permission denied error.  If I
copy the file to a different name, I also get the permission denied
error if I try to do an rm -f on it.  But if I do chmod u+w on the
file, I can do the rm -f.
Yes, it's all about the DOS R/O bit here.  Cygwin doesn't try to start
a transaction if the R/O bit is unset.  The problem *seems* to be that
there's a Perforce transaction manager already enlisted to the files,
and that transaction manager is getting in the way.  Maybe you just
shouldn't try to remove a file from the Perforce-controlled area, unless
you removed the file from version control before.

Anyway, I applied a patch which covers more transactional error codes,
so as to retry the activity without transaction.  This should help you
along.  Please give the today's developer snapshot from
http://cygwin.com/snapshots/  a try.


Thanks,
Corinna



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