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Re: autoheader (mv/exec) problem
- To: Cygwin <cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: autoheader (mv/exec) problem
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 00:05:35 -0400
- References: <20000823231923.A16518@OLMY>
- Reply-To: cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com
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...
It's not.
cgf
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