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From: "Mark Allan Young" <myoung AT intrinsic DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Two questions: Moving Directories, Ctrl-Z
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 18:22:34 -0800
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> On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 07:16:31PM -0800, Mark Allan Young wrote:
> >> On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 04:44:31PM -0800, Mark Allan Young wrote:
> >> >One thing I've noticed that changed with our recent upgrade
> >> >to 1.1.8 was that moving a directory now seems to perform a copy
> >> >and remove rather than just renaming a directory.  Is there a way
> >> >to just force the rename?  what's the benefit of the copy over the
> >> >rename?
> >>
> >> I just tried this.  An "mv" in cygwin moves the directory without
> >> copying.
> >>
> >> If it isn't doing this for you we'll need details.
> >
> >I tried this again and it started to do a copy...
> >
> >then I looked around my system and found another cygwin window
> >opened to a directory within the directory that I was trying to
> >move.
> 
> Ok.  The official answer to this problem is "Don't do that."

Doesn't seem right to me.  I'd rather it not take several minutes
to copy a large directory...  As I said in my previous message, if 
the command knows enough to realize that it must do a recursive 
copy/unlink, I'd rather it just say "Can't." or "Won't." or even
"EFILEBUSY"  :-).

my $.02, for whatever it's worth...

...myoung


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