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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 00:05:35 -0400
To: Cygwin <cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
Subject: Re: autoheader (mv/exec) problem
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In-Reply-To: <20000823231923.A16518@OLMY>; from Jason.Tishler@dothill.com on Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 11:19:24PM -0400

On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 11:19:24PM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote:
>When running autoheader, I kept getting error messages like the
>following:
>
>    mv: cannot move `autoh16138' to `config.h.in': Permission denied
>
>But after autoheader exited, I could successfully execute:
>
>    mv autoh16138 config.h.in
>
>without any problems.
>
>By reading the (shell script) source to autoheader, I determined that
>the problem has to do with trying to move a file when it is still open
>-- which is no surprise since Cygwin is sitting on top of Windows...
>
>The attached shell script exhibits the above problem on Cygwin but works
>on Linux.  I'm not sure if this one is fixable...

It's not.

cgf

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