Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.2.0.14.0.20041212194339.047eda18@pop.prospeed.net> Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 19:45:52 -0500 To: "Ben Wing" , From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: How to make `mv the hard way' fail In-Reply-To: <010201c4e0ac$62abcec0$210110ac@NEEEEEEE> References: <010201c4e0ac$62abcec0$210110ac AT NEEEEEEE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 07:40 PM 12/12/2004, you wrote: >Apologies if this is a FAQ. > >When I use `mv' on a directory and any file within it happens to be locked >for some reason [e.g. I've opened it in Word], it will try to copy the >entire directory and then delete the original. > >I consider this very dangerous behavior to be happening without my >specifically requesting it, and I'd like to make this fail rather than doing >this. Is there any option in Cygwin to disable this? Usually it is very >easy to fix the problem, but I want to be told about it rather than having >to ^C the mv and hope I caught it before it was in the middle of deleting >the original. No, not without altering the source that is. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/