From: Alex Riesen Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 11:24:40 GMT Subject: Re: First cut at git port to Cygwin Message-ID: <81b0412b0510050424h21fc06bav7677911f52b38426@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <434299DB.7020805@zytor.com> On 10/4/05, H. Peter Anvin 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. It's on Win2k, there was multiple cygwin installations in path, the other one supposedly is 1.5.5 (it's from QNX Momentics installation). I had that old "cygwin1.dll" renamed into "cygwin1.dll-disabled" long ago, though... I can't reproduce this out of GIT context, and the error is not reproducable after I removed the other cygwin installation out of PATH. Anyway, sorry, I should have tried this before posting.