From: richardd@cix.compulink.co.uk (Richard Donkin) Subject: B17 rename bug 9 Dec 1996 10:08:09 -0800 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Reply-To: richardd@cix.compulink.co.uk Original-To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Original-Cc: richardd@cix.compulink.co.uk Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Here's an entertaining bug that is presumably due to the Cygwin DLL considering 'foo' to refer to 'foo.exe' in order to be more Unix-compatible. This is using B17 on Win95. Note that 'remsync' did not exist at the start of this sequence: $ mv remsync.exe remsync mv: `remsync.exe' and `remsync' are the same file # Rename using temp filename as intermediary works OK $ mv remsync.exe remsync.foo $ mv remsync.foo remsync I'm not sure how you could fix this without breaking something else, but it should be documented somewhere. Richard -- richardd@cix.compulink.co.uk http://www.inside-edge.co.uk/ Inside Edge Consultancy Client/Server and Internet Applications PGP key from: pgp-public-keys@keys.pgp.net -or- http://www.four11.com/ - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".