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 From: Chris Faylor Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 00:05:35 -0400 To: Cygwin Subject: Re: autoheader (mv/exec) problem Message-ID: <20000824000535.B10771@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Mail-Followup-To: Cygwin References: <20000823231923.A16518@OLMY> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.6i In-Reply-To: <20000823231923.A16518@OLMY>; from Jason.Tishler@dothill.com on Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 11:19:24PM -0400 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... It's not. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com