> Without more details I hazard a guess: The Windows process creates the > directory without permissions for you to delete the directory or files > in that directory and you're running under UAC.
Yes, this turns out to be true. I disabled UAC entirely and now my program works. Is there a better way to share file and directory creation, modification and deletion between Cygwin processes and ordinary Windows processes, such that disabling UAC is not required? Some combination of umask and/or chmod on the Cygwin side with FileSetAttrib in Autoit (roughly equivalent to SetFileAttributes in the Windows API)? There is only one Windows user involved. As a Unix hacker I am somewhat mystified by this behavior. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
