At 07:40 PM 12/12/2004, you wrote: >Apologies if this is a FAQ. > >When I use `mv' on a directory and any file within it happens to be locked >for some reason [e.g. I've opened it in Word], it will try to copy the >entire directory and then delete the original. > >I consider this very dangerous behavior to be happening without my >specifically requesting it, and I'd like to make this fail rather than doing >this. Is there any option in Cygwin to disable this? Usually it is very >easy to fix the problem, but I want to be told about it rather than having >to ^C the mv and hope I caught it before it was in the middle of deleting >the original.
No, not without altering the source that is. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
