2009/12/13 Christian Franke:
> 'cp' does not unlink() before overwriting an existing file, it tries to
> overwrite the data in place. This also fails on *nix, typically with "Text
> file busy".
> 'mv' only modifies the link between file name in directory and file data.
> The OS can keep the old dat
Andy Koppe wrote:
2009/12/13 Eric Blake:
Same when trying to 'rm' an in-use executable: Works on 1.7, fails with
'Permission denied' on 1.5. Cygwin 1.7 works like Linux here. I don't
know whether POSIX requires this behavior.
POSIX allows both behaviors, but the cygwin 1.7 behavior
2009/12/13 Eric Blake:
>> Same when trying to 'rm' an in-use executable: Works on 1.7, fails with
>> 'Permission denied' on 1.5. Cygwin 1.7 works like Linux here. I don't
>> know whether POSIX requires this behavior.
>
> POSIX allows both behaviors, but the cygwin 1.7 behavior is more like
> Linux
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According to Christian Franke on 12/13/2009 5:16 AM:
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> Same when trying to 'rm' an in-use executable: Works on 1.7, fails with
> 'Permission denied' on 1.5. Cygwin 1.7 works like Linux here. I don't
> know whether POSIX requires this behavior.
POSI
Andy Koppe wrote:
cp and mv behave differently when trying to overwrite an in-use executable:
$ cp mintty.exe /bin
cp: cannot create regular file `/bin/mintty.exe': Device or resource busy
$ mv mintty.exe /bin
[works fine]
That's on 1.7. On 1.5, both cp and mv fail.
Same when trying to
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