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Re: First cut at git port to Cygwin

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CFChristopher Faylor <me@cgf.cx>
Date
Oct 5, 2005, 16:15 UTC
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<20051005161546.GB30303@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
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On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 09:09:49AM -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote:
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>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.

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  1. H. Peter AnvinSep 29, 2005
  2. Junio C HamanoSep 29, 2005
  3. H. Peter AnvinSep 29, 2005
  4. Martin LanghoffSep 29, 2005
  5. Junio C HamanoSep 29, 2005
  6. H. Peter AnvinSep 29, 2005
  7. Johannes SchindelinSep 29, 2005
  8. H. Peter AnvinSep 29, 2005
  9. H. Peter AnvinSep 29, 2005
  10. Junio C HamanoSep 30, 2005
  11. H. Peter AnvinSep 30, 2005
  12. H. Peter AnvinSep 30, 2005
  13. Alex RiesenOct 4, 2005
  14. Alex RiesenOct 4, 2005
  15. H. Peter AnvinOct 4, 2005
  16. Christopher FaylorOct 5, 2005
  17. H. Peter AnvinOct 4, 2005
  18. Christopher FaylorOct 5, 2005
  19. H. Peter AnvinOct 5, 2005
  20. Alex RiesenOct 5, 2005
  21. Alex RiesenOct 5, 2005
  22. Christopher FaylorOct 5, 2005
  23. Davide LibenziOct 5, 2005
  24. Christopher FaylorOct 5, 2005
  25. H. Peter AnvinOct 5, 2005
  26. Christopher FaylorOct 5, 2005
  27. Davide LibenziOct 5, 2005
  28. Alex RiesenOct 5, 2005
  29. Christopher FaylorOct 5, 2005
  30. Alex RiesenOct 6, 2005
  31. Alex RiesenOct 6, 2005
  32. Alex RiesenOct 7, 2005
  33. Linus TorvaldsOct 7, 2005
  34. Alex RiesenOct 7, 2005
  35. Alex RiesenOct 7, 2005
  36. Chuck LeverOct 7, 2005
  37. Alex RiesenOct 7, 2005
  38. Linus TorvaldsOct 8, 2005
  39. Elfyn McBratneyOct 8, 2005
  40. Elfyn McBratneyOct 8, 2005
  41. Johannes SchindelinOct 8, 2005
  42. Junio C HamanoOct 8, 2005
  43. Johannes SchindelinOct 8, 2005
  44. Junio C HamanoOct 8, 2005
  45. Johannes SchindelinOct 8, 2005
  46. H. Peter AnvinOct 10, 2005
  47. Johannes SchindelinOct 10, 2005
  48. H. Peter AnvinOct 10, 2005
  49. Johannes SchindelinOct 10, 2005
  50. Junio C HamanoOct 10, 2005
  51. Junio C HamanoOct 10, 2005
  52. H. Peter AnvinOct 10, 2005
  53. Daniel BarkalowOct 10, 2005
  54. Alex RiesenOct 8, 2005
  55. Commit text BEFORE the dashes (Re: First cut at git port to Cygwin)Matthias Urlichs, Oct 9, 2005
  56. Jonas FonsecaOct 5, 2005
  57. Johannes SchindelinOct 5, 2005
  58. Fix symbolic ref validationJonas Fonseca, Oct 5, 2005
  59. Junio C HamanoOct 5, 2005
  60. Alex RiesenOct 7, 2005
  61. Elfyn McBratneyOct 8, 2005
  62. H. Peter AnvinOct 10, 2005

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