From: Christopher Faylor <me@cgf.cx>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: First cut at git port to Cygwin
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 23:15:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051005031547.GC1393@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43428C65.3040205@zytor.com>
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 07:06:29AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>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"?
>
>In this case a better way would be to just add -liberty to all link
>lines if necessary, but I would expect the core cygwin code to do this.
AFAIK, cygwin has a working rename(). Many packages rely on it.
If rename() is not working then a bug report with a test case would be
appreciated.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-05 3:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-29 0:53 First cut at git port to Cygwin H. Peter Anvin
2005-09-29 4:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-29 5:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-09-29 4:46 ` Martin Langhoff
2005-09-29 5:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-29 6:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-09-29 8:46 ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-09-29 16:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-09-29 17:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-09-30 10:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-30 17:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-09-30 19:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-04 12:31 ` Alex Riesen
2005-10-04 13:06 ` Alex Riesen
2005-10-04 14:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-05 3:15 ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
2005-10-04 15:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-05 3:16 ` Christopher Faylor
2005-10-05 5:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-05 11:24 ` Alex Riesen
2005-10-05 15:46 ` Alex Riesen
2005-10-05 15:54 ` Christopher Faylor
2005-10-05 16:09 ` Davide Libenzi
2005-10-05 16:15 ` Christopher Faylor
2005-10-05 16:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-05 16:28 ` Christopher Faylor
2005-10-05 17:29 ` Davide Libenzi
2005-10-05 19:17 ` Alex Riesen
2005-10-05 20:29 ` Christopher Faylor
2005-10-06 9:05 ` Alex Riesen
2005-10-06 10:07 ` Alex Riesen
2005-10-07 12:44 ` Alex Riesen
2005-10-07 15:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-07 20:54 ` Alex Riesen
2005-10-07 21:22 ` Alex Riesen
2005-10-07 21:29 ` Chuck Lever
2005-10-07 21:39 ` Alex Riesen
2005-10-08 16:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-08 17:38 ` Elfyn McBratney
2005-10-08 17:43 ` Elfyn McBratney
2005-10-08 18:27 ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-10-08 18:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-08 19:04 ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-10-08 21:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-08 22:06 ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-10-10 18:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-10 19:01 ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-10-10 19:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-10 19:42 ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-10-10 20:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-10 20:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-10 20:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-10 20:27 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-10-08 18:49 ` Alex Riesen
2005-10-09 20:40 ` Commit text BEFORE the dashes (Re: First cut at git port to Cygwin) Matthias Urlichs
[not found] ` <7vfyrdyre5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
2005-10-07 23:45 ` First cut at git port to Cygwin Alex Riesen
2005-10-08 1:00 ` Elfyn McBratney
2005-10-10 18:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-05 13:16 ` Jonas Fonseca
2005-10-05 13:58 ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-10-05 15:52 ` [PATCH] Fix symbolic ref validation Jonas Fonseca
2005-10-05 16:54 ` Junio C Hamano
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