Two questions: Moving Directories, Ctrl-Z

Mark Allan Young myoung@intrinsic.com
Fri Mar 16 18:05:00 GMT 2001


> On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 04:44:31PM -0800, Mark Allan Young wrote:
> >One thing I've noticed that changed with our recent upgrade
> >to 1.1.8 was that moving a directory now seems to perform a copy
> >and remove rather than just renaming a directory.  Is there a way
> >to just force the rename?  what's the benefit of the copy over the
> >rename?
> 
> I just tried this.  An "mv" in cygwin moves the directory without
> copying.
> 
> If it isn't doing this for you we'll need details.

I can send an strace if you like, but I'll need to send it directly to
you, as it get's pretty long...  is there something else I could do to
get you the information you require...?

...myoung

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