unable to remove hard link

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

DePriest, Jason R. wrote:
> I did some unfortunate experimenting with compiling different versions
> of Sleuthkit and Autopsy (http://www.sleuthkit.org) before they
> officially started supporting cygwin.
> 
> Autopsy wipes out your PATH when it runs to make sure you are using
> the correct version of the utilities.
> 
> This also means, it could not see any of the Cygwin dlls that the
> tools were compiled with (they've implemented intelligent work-arounds
> since then).
> 
> I tried hard linking the various dlls it needed in its designated bin 
> directory.
> 
> The experiment isn't important (since they now support Cygwin out of
> the box), what is important is that I cannot delete my hard links.
> 
> Actually, I can get it to go the recycle bin, but it won't leave the
> recycle bin.
> 
> I can 'restore' them but I cannot empty it.
> 
> Looking through my bash history file, I see I did:
> chmod a+rwx cygz.dll
> unlink cygz.dll
> 
> This let me delete the file as far as getting it to the recycle bin,
> but that is as far as I can go.
> 
> The specific error from Windows is:
> Error Deleting File or Folder
> Cannot delete cygz: Access is denied.
> Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is
> not currently in use.
> 
> Since the file is in my recycle bin, this message makes no sense.
> 
> Is there some way I can make the original cygz.dll forget all about a
> couple of its hard links because ls still shows it has 3 total instead
> of 1 like every other single dll.

 From your cygcheck.out:

Warning: There are multiple cygwin1.dlls on your path

Get rid of the one in 'c:\Tools\Foundstone\'.  This is most
likely your problem.

Get rid of "ntea" in your CYGWIN environment variable.  You don't
need it and it could get in your way.

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