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RE: cannot open output file a.exe: Permission denied
- From: Heribert Dahms <heribert_dahms at icon-scm dot com>
- To: 'Ethan Mallove' <emallove at yahoo dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 23:57:43 +0100
- Subject: RE: cannot open output file a.exe: Permission denied
Hi Ethan,
is the program still running?
A running executable is locked from overwriting by e.g. the linker
under most unixes, and when not, I've seen spectacular crashes 8-)
Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms@icon-scm.com)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ethan Mallove [SMTP:emallove@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 23:44
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: cannot open output file a.exe: Permission denied
>
> I was trying to compile a simple multi-file C++
> program when i got this error message:
>
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/2.95.3-5/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld
> :
> cannot open output file a.exe: Permission denied
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>
> i moved all the files into a different directory and
> abracadabra the error message didn't occur. What was
> happening when i was getting the "permission denied"
> error?
>
> -ethan
>
[Heribert] [snip]
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