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 From: Chris Faylor Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 22:20:42 -0500 To: Corinna Vinschen Cc: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" , cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: B20: mv deletes files on error (NT) Message-ID: <19990329222042.A2607@cygnus.com> References: <3.0.5.32.19990329184811.00a1d360@pop.ma.ultranet.com> <3.0.5.32.19990329192524.00a1b9b0@pop.ma.ultranet.com> <37002186.C647122A@cityweb.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <37002186.C647122A@cityweb.de>; from Corinna Vinschen on Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 02:57:42AM +0200 On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 02:57:42AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> 3. If everyone agrees that the best thing to do is modify "mv" and this is >> the only change necessary to make sure "mv" doesn't break as a result, >> how come its not part of the change? Shouldn't the goal be to improve >> Cygwin rather than taking one step forward and then one step back? > >The change was invented in a b21 winsup snapshot. This isn't a official >release and has nothing to do with the implementation of GNU fileutils. >This is another point. Actually, was it even your change, Corinna? I can't find it in the ChangeLog. Has someone come up with a patch for `mv' yet? If so, please send it to me with a ChangeLog entry and I'll get it into Cygnus's sources and look into getting it into the FSF sources as well. As I mentioned in a previous post, I don't think there is any way to modify Cygwin to work around the current behavior. This requires an `mv' modification. -chris -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com