Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 11:01:32 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: Leon KUKOVEC cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, Subject: Re: /bin/mv question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Wrong list, redirected. Please remove from replies. Igor On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Leon KUKOVEC wrote: > Hi all, > > Since I'm not on the list, I would kindly ask you to CC me when replying. > > I am trying to move(rename) certain directory using /bin/mv command. > > Is there any way that I could check if any applications/programs have that > directory or any other files within that directory open, like Windows Explorer > does it ? > > What happends when some applications still have open files inside that > directory, part of the directory gets moved(renamed) and the files > that were open stay in that directory and /bin/mv command of course fails. > > Thanks in advance, -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Oh, boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a really *big* RAMdisk! -- /usr/games/fortune -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/