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Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 10:07:01 -0500
From: Jason Tishler <Jason DOT Tishler AT dothill DOT com>
To: Cygwin <cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
Subject: Re: autoheader (mv/exec) problem
Message-ID: <20001031100701.B1441@dothill.com>
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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
Organization: Dot Hill Systems Corp.

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...

Just in case someone is still interested, I have more information
regarding this problem.  The move problem only occurs on shares (i.e.,
CIFS) and not on local (i.e. NTFS) file systems.

Jason

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