On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 10:32:13AM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >On 08/10/2012 07:32 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >> On 8/10/2012 7:31 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >>> I use Cygwin a lot. And I kick off Windows processes a lot. Recently >>> I've >>> been having a problem with my system but from Cygwin all I see is >>> "permission denied": >>> >>> Ltsdo-adefaria:cd /cygdrive/c/Program\ >>> Files/IBM/RationalSDLC/Clearquest >>> Ltsdo-adefaria:ls -l clearquest.exe >>> -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 Administrators clearusers 245760 Jun 2 2011 >>> clearquest.exe* >>> Ltsdo-adefaria:clearquest >>> bash: ./clearquest: Permission denied >>> Ltsdo-adefaria: >>> >>> However if I use cmd the real error message comes out: >>> >>> Ltsdo-adefaria:cmd /c clearquest >>> The application has failed to start because its side-by-side >>> configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log or >>> use the command-line sxstrace.exe tool for more detail. >>> >>> I know that this "side-by-side configuration is incorrect" is a >>> configuration error on my machine and I need to fix it, but shouldn't >>> Cygwin's exec(2) report the "side-by-side" error instead of the more >>> erroneous "Permission denied" error? >> >> Cygwin doesn't report Windows error codes. It reports POSIX ones. I >> have no idea why there would be a POSIX error code for side-by-side >> errors but if there were, then reporting that is more appropriate. >I thought that perhaps Cygwin would report back error *messages* not >just error *codes*...
Cygwin emulates Linux. "Permission denied" is an error message associated with a specific errno. Neither Cygwin nor Linux know anything about a "side-by-side" configuration problem. cgf -- 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
