X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: RE: mv: permission denied - bug MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 08:16:31 +0200 Message-ID: <083ED85235915A4AAE91081E3CC6148702CAAD@ihbexc1.inconso.de> From: "Hofmann Kai" To: X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id k5S6JIBx031965 Hi Larry, > If the name of the file is actually '/filename/', then I believe you have > a > problem with this file name itself. It would be interpreted as a > directory. > You may want to look into why this is happening. No sorry, this was only an example - the filename in the error message is correct. As said, the file existed and is then removed my mv as it seems. But the temp file is not moved into its place. Also I forgot to mention, that for each run, different files will fail with This error message. Also there is no permission problem - the files are all writable. Greetings Kai -- 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/