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: "Mark Allan Young" To: Subject: RE: Two questions: Moving Directories, Ctrl-Z Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 18:05:44 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20010316202101.A2454@redhat.com> > 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 can send an strace if you like, but I'll need to send it directly to you, as it get's pretty long... is there something else I could do to get you the information you require...? ...myoung -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple