On Jan 7 09:38, Brian Ford wrote: > On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > The same happens with all hardlinks to files used by the system. The NT > > status code returned when trying to set the delete disposition flag is > > C0000121, STATUS_CANNOT_DELETE. None of the Windows native methods to > > delete these hardlinks works. I'm still puzzeled how to get rid of > > them. Does anybody knows how to do that? > > Just a WAG, but disable Windows File Protection? > > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/222193
No, I found the solution by getting the double-plus surprising result that removing these hardlinks works in Cygwin 1.5. For some reason only the OS hackers at Microsoft might grok, setting the delete dispostion flag for a file (*) doesn't work, but opening the file with the FILE_FLAG_DELETE_ON_CLOSE flag and then closing it again (**) works fine. Go figure! Unfortunately the DELETE_ON_CLOSE stuff is too dangerous in some circumstances so it's not a generic solution. I'm preparing a fix for 1.7. Corinna (*) Which is also what the Win32 function DeleteFile does. (**) Which is what Cygwin 1.5 and the native function ZwDeleteFile does. -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/