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Re: fileutils-4.0-3
Shouldn't you do something like du -k //d/path/to/file ??
/A
/ Jerrold Heyman <jheyman@dev.tivoli.com> wrote:
| I've made the fileutils-4.0-3 version of du available to
| my users, and I have one who is reporting the following problem
| running:
|
| du -k d:\path\to\file
| "Permission Denied"
|
| There is another process that has the file open, and they are
| using the du in a periodic loop to make sure that the disk doesn't
| fill up. If they kill the process that has the file open, then the
| du works successfully.
|
| Is there something within Cygwin.dll that keeps du from successfully
| accessing the file while another process is accessing it??
|
| jerry
| Jerry Heyman 919.224.1442 | Tivoli Systems |"Software is the
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| Jerry.Heyman@tivoli.com | RTP, NC 27709 | hardware and reality"
| http://www.acm.org/~heymanj
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