Re: mv does copy instead of rename

2006-06-03 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Richard Foulk wrote: In an Active Directory environment Windows Explorer was refusing to rename a directory, presumably because the directory was open by another process. Why are you presuming this? Didn't Windows report why this was not being done? On trying mv under Cygwin to rename the

mv does copy instead of rename

2006-06-03 Thread Richard Foulk
In an Active Directory environment Windows Explorer was refusing to rename a directory, presumably because the directory was open by another process. On trying mv under Cygwin to rename the directory, mv seemed to just hang. It was a large directory and mv was actually copying the files to the ne