Hi Ethan, is the program still running? A running executable is locked from overwriting by e.g. the linker under most unixes, and when not, I've seen spectacular crashes 8-) Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms@icon-scm.com) > -----Original Message----- > From: Ethan Mallove [SMTP:emallove@yahoo.com] > Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 23:44 > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: cannot open output file a.exe: Permission denied >> I was trying to compile a simple multi-file C++ > program when i got this error message: >> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/2.95.3-5/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld > : > cannot open output file a.exe: Permission denied > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status >> i moved all the files into a different directory and > abracadabra the error message didn't occur. What was > happening when i was getting the "permission denied" > error? >> -ethan > [Heribert] [snip] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/