On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 09:09:49AM -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote: >On 10/5/05, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote: >>Still does not work for me. I cannot isolate the problem out of git, >>but at the moment the only way for me to make commit_index_file to work >>is to put unlink(indexfile) before rename(cf->lockfile, indexfile). > >I don't know how Cygwin implemented rename(), but if they used >MoveFile() they broke the POSIX rename() since MoveFile() fails if >destination already exists. They should have used >MoveFileEx(MOVEFILE_REPLACE_EXISTING) instead, to guarantee POSIX >semantics. The symptoms you're experiencing make me think this might >be the case (even if it is strange, since other Unix software would >fail the same way). Cygwin's rename is much more than just a simple wrapper around MoveFile or MoveFileEx. It tries hard to guarantee POSIX semantics within the strictures imposed by Windows. -- Christopher Faylor spammer? -> aaaspam@sourceware.org Cygwin Co-Project Leader aaaspam@duffek.com TimeSys, Inc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Thu Oct 06 02:17:15 2005
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