overwriting an in-use executable

[Andy Koppe]

cp and mv behave differently when trying to overwrite an in-use executable:

$ cp mintty.exe /bin
cp: cannot create regular file `/bin/mintty.exe': Device or resource busy

$ mv mintty.exe /bin
[works fine]

That's on 1.7. On 1.5, both cp and mv fail.

Is that as expected?

Andy

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