I have the same problem with several Cygwin programs including wget and unzip. The "access denied" survives a reboot.
So it seems that Cygwin is creating files with this problem. I have only one user with, of course, administrative rights. 11/08/2002 11:49 AM 1,080,807 cygwin-1.3.15-2.tar.bz2 bash-2.05b$ ex temp.txt "temp.txt" [New File] Entering Ex mode. Type "visual" to go to Normal mode. :a This is a test Test . :wq bash-2.05b$ exit Now back in cmd.exe: C:\TEMP>temp.txt Access is denied. C:\TEMP>copy temp.txt a. txt 1 file(s) copied. C:\TEMP>del temp.txt C:\TEMP>ren a.txt temp.t xt C:\TEMP>temp.txt C:\TEMP> -- 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/