X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <44A1F02F.2030804@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 22:57:51 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060112 Fedora/1.5-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: mv: permission denied - bug References: <083ED85235915A4AAE91081E3CC6148702CA83 AT ihbexc1 DOT inconso DOT de> In-Reply-To: <083ED85235915A4AAE91081E3CC6148702CA83@ihbexc1.inconso.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Hofmann Kai wrote: > Hello, > > I run some linux scripts I used from time to time now under cygwin, > So I found a problem that has never been appeared under Linux. > > The scripts I use are included. > Difftest.sh is the script that will be started by the user. > It will first update some repositories and then run "finds" over them to > Compress subversion/cvs keywords within ascii files. > After this diff will be run. > > The problem is now that some (of thousands) files will produce the following error message: > > Mv: cannot create regular file '/filename/': Permission denied > > Interesting now is that the mentioned file has been removed! > > So what I am assuming is, that during the mv the destination file has been removed, but then mv can not move over the temporary file created by sed - for unknown reasons. > So it might be a timing problem, or that sed has not closed the temp file correctly. > The subversion thing is not required - also the diff could be removed from the file. For testing you need a larger number of files. If the name of the file is actually '/filename/', then I believe you have a problem with this file name itself. It would be interpreted as a directory. You may want to look into why this is happening. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (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/