From: win AT cic DOT net (Winona Strater) Subject: Re: B17 rename bug 9 Dec 1996 21:22:24 -0800 Sender: daemon AT cygnus DOT com Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <32ACA07A.4BDB.cygnus.gnu-win32@cic.net> References: Reply-To: win AT cic DOT net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (WinNT; I) Original-To: richardd AT cix DOT compulink DOT co DOT uk Original-CC: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Ahh thats a bug? I thought it was a feature ;) , that happens on NT3.51 also. Win Richard Donkin wrote: > > 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 AT cix DOT compulink DOT co DOT uk http://www.inside-edge.co.uk/ > Inside Edge Consultancy Client/Server and Internet Applications > PGP key from: pgp-public-keys AT keys DOT pgp DOT net -or- http://www.four11.com/ > > - > For help on using this list, send a message to > "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".