X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4B24DB01.2040201@t-online.de> Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 13:16:01 +0100 From: Christian Franke User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091017 SeaMonkey/2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: overwriting an in-use executable References: <416096c60912130019s5188fdd9w2f561005ba2c8c69@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <416096c60912130019s5188fdd9w2f561005ba2c8c69@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Andy Koppe wrote: > cp and mv behave differently when trying to overwrite an in-use executable: > > $ cp mintty.exe /bin > cp: cannot create regular file `/bin/mintty.exe': Device or resource busy > > $ mv mintty.exe /bin > [works fine] > > That's on 1.7. On 1.5, both cp and mv fail. > > Same when trying to 'rm' an in-use executable: Works on 1.7, fails with 'Permission denied' on 1.5. Cygwin 1.7 works like Linux here. I don't know whether POSIX requires this behavior. The difference probably occurs because 1.7 now uses NtSetInformationFile() instead of MoveFileEx() and DeleteFile(). Christian -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple