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 Message-ID: <3AB2BF4C.F1E4167C@airflash.com> Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 17:35:08 -0800 From: "Alex Tang" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com CC: myoung@intrinsic.com Subject: Re: Two questions: Moving Directories, Ctrl-Z References: <20010316202101.A2454@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 04:44:31PM -0800, Mark Allan Young wrote: > >One thing I've noticed that changed with our recent upgrade > >to 1.1.8 was that moving a directory now seems to perform a copy > >and remove rather than just renaming a directory. Is there a way > >to just force the rename? what's the benefit of the copy over the > >rename? > > I just tried this. An "mv" in cygwin moves the directory without > copying. > > If it isn't doing this for you we'll need details. I've seen this problem (mv actually does a copy) when the target directory is in use (file is open or you've got a shell working in some part of the directory.) Also, when this happens, a "rm -rf" will do some amount of work, then it will just stop and not return. I'm assuming it's waiting for a resource to become free, but I haven't looked into it. Sorry I don't have more info. ...alex... -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple