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Re: Upgrade woes ("file in use")


Nuzhna Pomoshch writes:
> --- On Wed, 3/11/09, Dave Korn <XXX@YYY.ZZZ> wrote:

Please don't quote raw email addresses.  It only feeds the spammers.

> > It sounds very much like BLODA interference:
> > your on-access anti-virus scanner may have kept an open
> > handle on it after setup.exe had closed its own.=A0 It's
> > known to occasionally happen with some AVs.
> 
> I run absolutely no anti-virus (or firewall) on that machine.

Please consider reading up on BLODA; although anti-virus is the most common form
of BLODA, it's not the only form.
<http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda> might be helpful.

..mark




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