Fixes to rename and unlink. Cygwin 1.3.1. Failed SAMBA deletes?

Wed May 23 04:40:00 GMT 2001

Neil Erskine wrote:
>> A recent note referenced clever code utilizing the DeleteOnClose flag in
> reference to failed SAMBA deletes. Note that the clever code in unlink
> doesn't work with novell shares either, although for different reasons.
> Fixes to unlink and rename are part of this message.
>> I fixed remove (unlink) from cygwin1.dll version 1.3.1 in the following,
> which adds a lot of debugging lines and comments, but differs from the old
> code only in removing one instance of "os_being_run == winNT" at the point
> where Novell is mentioned. I doubt that this will fix the SAMBA issue, but
> if anyone is looking at fixing remove for SAMBA, they might incorporate this
> fix too. I haven't tested it on anything other than NTFS and Novell
> filesystems accessed from Windows 2000.
>
Have a look at http://cygwin.com/contrib.html
-- 
Earnie.
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