Quite possibly. We have Embassy Trust Suite and Symantec Endpoint Security installed on all our work machines, while I use ClamWin at home and don't have this problem. The symptoms would indicate that it is an environmental difference and this is certainly a candidate. I've disabled as many of the Symantec features as I can without uninstalling it (which I don't have permissions to do), and I still get the same problem. So, if it is Symantec then it's at a level deeper than I can go. Not sure about the Embassy suite, I'll have a play and see what I can find but it's tricky as the sysadmins here don't like us developer-types playing with security settings on our machines. Go figure. I've also tried a complete (including registry keys) reinstall of cygwin (as per Nicholas' email) and still have the problem. I'll try a summary posting to the cygwin group as suggested to see if they know of anything over there. If there's anything else I can do in the meantime, please let me know. I'll be closing my eyes real tight and hoping that next time I open them I have a Linux desktop in front of me :-) Thanks for all your help guys, Paul On Jan 17, 2008 11:51 AM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Paul Umbers wrote: > > > > Incidentally, I've tried this on two other machines at work with the > > same results. The steps to reproduce are annoyingly simple: download > > cygwin installer & execute (accept all defaults), select the packages > > specified for the binary windows install on the git wiki, try to > > create a git repository and add files. Frustrating - especially since > > my desktop at my last job worked just fine. > > Is there perhaps some odd virus scanner or something that interferes with > filesystem operations? It sounds like you have consistent problems on > *some* machines, but others cannot reproduce them, which makes me wonder > if there is some setup issue. Maybe your company machines have some DLL or > something that interferes subtly with cygwin. > > (Eg there might be another cygwin install hidden off somewhere?) > > The "virus scanner" thing was just a random thought, but under windows > it's not unheard of to have things that intercept filesystem accesses for > things like that. Virus scanners, "security features", rootkits from Sony > or other sources of trouble etc - you name it. > > That kind of environmental difference would explain why you didn't see it > on another machine, and why others seem to not be able to reproduce it > either. > > Linus > -- Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. --- Edsger W. Dijkstra Paul Umbers MSc MBCS MIAP paul.umbers@xxxxxxxxx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
