X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <44824865.6030707@cygwin.com> Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2006 22:41:41 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051223 Fedora/1.5-0.2.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5 Mnenhy/0.7.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: mv does copy instead of rename References: <1149361203.19613.ezmlm@cygwin.com> <200606032223.k53MNS0f019743@sd.skydive1.com> In-Reply-To: <200606032223.k53MNS0f019743@sd.skydive1.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Richard Foulk wrote: > In an Active Directory environment Windows Explorer was refusing to > rename a directory, presumably because the directory was open by > another process. Why are you presuming this? Didn't Windows report why this was not being done? > On trying mv under Cygwin to rename the directory, mv seemed to just > hang. It was a large directory and mv was actually copying the files > to the new named directory (on the same partition.) > > Does this seem like appropriate behaviour? It was certainly unexpected. Well, if Windows can't tell you why it couldn't move the directory, Cygwin, which relies on Windows for it's functionality, is probably not going to be able to out-do Windows in this regard. 'mv' may have misinterpreted Window's "confusion" here as a cross-device move, which is implemented as a copy followed by a remove of the original directory. But you'd have to investigate it to know for sure. > I'm pretty sure mv is never supposed to do this on Unix. Depends on the situation, as I noted above. -- 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/