Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 10:07:01 -0500 From: Jason Tishler To: Cygwin Subject: Re: autoheader (mv/exec) problem Message-ID: <20001031100701.B1441@dothill.com> References: <20000823231923.A16518@OLMY> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20000823231923.A16518@OLMY>; from Jason.Tishler@dothill.com on Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 11:19:24PM -0400 Organization: Dot Hill Systems Corp. On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 11:19:24PM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote: > When running autoheader, I kept getting error messages like the > following: > > mv: cannot move `autoh16138' to `config.h.in': Permission denied > > But after autoheader exited, I could successfully execute: > > mv autoh16138 config.h.in > > without any problems. > > By reading the (shell script) source to autoheader, I determined that > the problem has to do with trying to move a file when it is still open > -- which is no surprise since Cygwin is sitting on top of Windows... > > The attached shell script exhibits the above problem on Cygwin but works > on Linux. I'm not sure if this one is fixable... Just in case someone is still interested, I have more information regarding this problem. The move problem only occurs on shares (i.e., CIFS) and not on local (i.e. NTFS) file systems. Jason -- Jason Tishler Director, Software Engineering Phone: +1 (732) 264-8770 x235 Dot Hill Systems Corporation Fax: +1 (732) 264-8798 82 Bethany Road, Suite 7 Email: Jason.Tishler@dothill.com Hazlet, NJ 07730 USA WWW: http://www.dothill.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com