Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 19:42:16 -0500 From: Chris Faylor To: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Cc: Corinna Vinschen , David Dagon , cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: B20: mv deletes files on error (NT) Message-ID: <19990329194216.B9937@cygnus.com> References: <36FD516F.45299E3E@mindspring.com> <19990329005659.A2473@cygnus.com> <3.0.5.32.19990329114507.00a07bd0@pop.ma.ultranet.com> <3.0.5.32.19990329170524.00a0e280@pop.ma.ultranet.com> <3700004F.E59C6686@cityweb.de> <3.0.5.32.19990329180952.00a17510@pop.ma.ultranet.com> <19990329191539.A4753@cygnus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <19990329191539.A4753@cygnus.com>; from Chris Faylor on Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 07:15:39PM -0500 On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 07:15:39PM -0500, Chris Faylor wrote: >Fwiw, Corinna is right here but because of "hard links". This comes down ^ not Sorry about that. >to the question should "Foo" have the same inode as "foo". The answer >is "Yes." > >What that means is that when 'mv' checks for the existence of the target >file it finds that 1) that it exists and 2) that it is the same file. >Since mv refuses to move a file to itself, the only feasible change is >to 'mv'. > >-chris -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com