From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 14:06:29 GMT
Subject: Re: First cut at git port to Cygwin
Message-ID: <43428C65.3040205@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0510040531m441ca759k6d1f3fbf0cd248ce@mail.gmail.com>

Alex Riesen wrote:
> 
> I noticed that rename(2) in my copy of cygwin (1.5.18-1) does not remove the
> target and returns an error (probably EPERM, but I have reasons not to trust
> strerror on that thing).
> The repository was on FAT.
> Taking "rename(2)" from cygwin's libiberty solved this (they unlink if link(2)
> returns EEXIST).
> 
> PS: Does broken rename(2) qualify a system "not worthy to support"?

In this case a better way would be to just add -liberty to all link 
lines if necessary, but I would expect the core cygwin code to do this.

	-hpa