From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 15:03:55 GMT
Subject: Re: First cut at git port to Cygwin
Message-ID: <434299DB.7020805@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"?

I just tried this with Cygwin 1.5.18-1 and didn't have any such 
problems.  I tried it on NTFS, FAT and Samba, using WinXP.

	-hpa