Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.0.1.1.0.20040409170656.03a063c8@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 17:17:22 -0400 To: JGraham , Cygwin List From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: mv directories In-Reply-To: <1081365957.5222.7.camel@Dark> References: <1081364548.5222.4.camel@Dark> <6.0.1.1.0.20040407151754.039f6da8@127.0.0.1> <1081365957.5222.7.camel@Dark> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 03:25 PM 4/7/2004, you wrote: >> Is VMWare a significant component or is it just the fact that you have a >> "shortcut"? >no, vmware probably isn't significant (just giving the system >rundown), > > >> Is your "shortcut" created via Cygwin's "ls -s" or via >> Windows? >> >and it wasn't a windows 'shortcut' it was a link 'ln -s' (i misspoke) OK, I wasn't able to reproduce this with the following: lhall@lhall->cd /tmp /tmp lhall@lhall->mkdir test lhall@lhall->cd test /tmp/test lhall@lhall->mkdir foo lhall@lhall->cd foo /tmp/test/foo lhall@lhall->mkdir backup lhall@lhall->touch backup/bar backup/baz lhall@lhall->cd .. /tmp/test lhall@lhall->ln -s /cygdrive/i linuxshare lhall@lhall->ls -l total 0 drwxrwxrwx+ 3 lhall Domain U 0 Apr 9 17:07 foo/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 lhall Domain U 22 Apr 9 17:09 linuxshare -> /cygdrive/i/ lhall@lhall->cd foo /tmp/test/foo lhall@lhall->mv backup/ ../linuxshare lhall@lhall->ls ../linuxshare/backup/ bar baz So maybe VMWare is significant but I don't have a Linux version to try it with. Or maybe you and I are really doing things differently. Does the above work for you? If not, send the output of your run to the list. Also *attach* the output of 'cygcheck -s -r -v'. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/