Why was this thread redirected to cygwin-apps? cgf
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 02:52:11PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: >On 7/12/2013 12:49, fger...@gmx.de wrote: >> >> But since 3.7.17-3 I cannot read my databases any more >> "unable to open datase file". > >Without a test case, debugging this will amount to testing guesses. > >My first guess: try setting the new CYGWIN_SQLITE_LOCKING environment >variable to "posix". That can fix it if you are trying to use two or >more Cygwin SQLite based programs to access a single database file. > >The default mode for Cygwin SQLite is now -- and pretty much always has >been -- to prefer allowing a single Cygwin SQLite program to cooperate >with any number of native Windows programs for access to a single SQLite >DB file. > >This means that in this "posix" mode, Cygwin SQLite is no longer likely >to cooperate with native Windows SQLite based programs for access to a >shared DB file. That's the tradeoff: choose to share with other Cygwin >programs, or choose to share with native Windows programs. > >> I remember there was a discussion >> on the cygwin general mailing list about this problem >> (backslashes in path?). > >If that's what's going on, my .17-3 build should have fixed the problem, >not manifested it. >
