Re: First cut at git port to Cygwin

> 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.