Re: design question, why not always use 'cp --remove-destination'?

2006-08-22 Thread Krasimir Angelov
On 8/22/06, Frederik Eaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Perhaps the "Text file busy" error is Unix-specific, but I can imagine cases where somebody (other than the OS) might open a file with a well-known name and read from various parts of it, and expect it not to change underneath them... Then h

Re: design question, why not always use 'cp --remove-destination'?

2006-08-22 Thread Krasimir Angelov
Isn't this Unix specific bug? If that is the case then maybe unlinking should be optional. Cheers, Krasimir On 8/22/06, Frederik Eaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear bug-coreutils, We are trying to decide what the semantics of the Haskell standard library function 'copyFile' should be. The