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 Message-ID: <36FFA8DF.3763B5D6@hem2.passagen.se> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 18:22:55 +0200 From: Anders Norlander X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Faylor CC: David Dagon , cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: B20: mv deletes files on error (NT) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) References: <36FD516F.45299E3E@mindspring.com> <19990329005659.A2473@cygnus.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Chris Faylor wrote: > > I'm not 100% certain (and I can't check right now) but I think that > this should not be a problem in recent snapshots. A net contributor > supplied a patch to make "inode" generation case-insensitive. That > should make mv capable of detecting this problem and disallowing it. Wasn't this a problem on samba drives? Maybe that is the issue in this case. What do you mean by "detecting this problem and disallowing it"? `mv foo Foo' is a perfectly legal command, case-sensitive file-system or not. Regards, Anders -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com