autoheader (mv/exec) problem

Tue Oct 31 07:07:00 GMT 2000

On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 11:19:24PM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote:
> When running autoheader, I kept getting error messages like the
> following:
>> mv: cannot move `autoh16138' to `config.h.in': Permission denied
>> But after autoheader exited, I could successfully execute:
>> mv autoh16138 config.h.in
>> without any problems.
>> By reading the (shell script) source to autoheader, I determined that
> the problem has to do with trying to move a file when it is still open
> -- which is no surprise since Cygwin is sitting on top of Windows...
>> The attached shell script exhibits the above problem on Cygwin but works
> on Linux. I'm not sure if this one is fixable...

Just in case someone is still interested, I have more information
regarding this problem. The move problem only occurs on shares (i.e.,
CIFS) and not on local (i.e. NTFS) file systems.
Jason
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