Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <20000824113211.567.qmail@web125.yahoomail.com> Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 04:32:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Earnie Boyd Subject: Re: autoheader (mv/exec) problem To: Jason Tishler , Cygwin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hmm... I think I remember posting a patch for this. I don't remember the details as it was some months agot. Cheers, Earnie. --- 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... > > Jason > > -- > Jason Tishler > Director, Software Engineering Phone: +1 (732) 264-8770 x235 > Dot Hill Systems Corporation Fax: +1 (732) 264-8798 > 82 Bethany Road, Suite 7 Email: Jason DOT Tishler AT dothill DOT com > Hazlet, NJ 07730 USA WWW: http://www.dothill.com > > ATTACHMENT part 2 application/x-sh > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com