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Re: autoheader (mv/exec) problem
- To: Cygwin <cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: autoheader (mv/exec) problem
- From: Jason Tishler <Jason dot Tishler at dothill dot com>
- Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 10:07:01 -0500
- Organization: Dot Hill Systems Corp.
- References: <20000823231923.A16518@OLMY>
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
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Dot Hill Systems Corporation Fax: +1 (732) 264-8798
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