Re: 1.7 file permissions changes

2009-11-13 Thread Eric Benson
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

1.7 file permissions changes

2009-11-12 Thread Eric Benson
I have a batch of Unix-based Perl scripts that I use for CD ripping. They use a queue-based approach. One process reads discs, another process encodes and tags them, and a third process uploads them to a file server. I've been running this on Cygwin for several years. I used cdda2wav to read

1.7 file permissions changes

2009-11-12 Thread Eric Benson
(I'm reposting this message since Yahoo decided to leave out line breaks. Sorry for unintentionally sending HTML mail.) I have a batch of Unix-based Perl scripts that I use for CD ripping. They use a queue-based approach. One process reads discs, another process encodes and tags them, and a

Creating users and groups

2003-06-23 Thread Eric Benson
I'm working on a set of daemons that should run under their own user and group id. I'd like to write a shell script that will create this user and group. I'm using useradd and groupadd on Red Hat Linux, but those don't seem to exist on Cygwin. Is there a recommended way to handle this

Resize problem with xemacs on XWin-Test77 -multiwindow

2003-02-10 Thread Eric Benson
I'm running XWin-Test77 using the -multiwindow feature. I can't seem to resize XEmacs's windows. This is true when running XEmacs 21.4.8 displaying remotely from a Red Hat 8.0 machine or running XEmacs 21.4.12 running locally compiled under Cygwin. It's easy to reproduce: start XWin -multiwindow

Problems with Perl XS module in C++ on Cygwin

2002-10-01 Thread Eric Benson
I'm having trouble building a Perl XS module in C++ on Cygwin. I've got Cygwin 1.3.12-2 and I've tried Perl 5.6.1 and Perl 5.8.0. This module has built and run successfully on Linux. I used the XS C++ guidelines in http://www.johnkeiser.com/perl-xs-c++.html The first problem is caused by the