Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Sounds not convincing. If the OS isn't able to deal with such a basic > situation, it's seriously unusable. Windows might have some annoying > properties, but it's certainly usable. > > I'm just running a script which desperatly tries to reproduce the above > problem, but it WJFFM:
It just occured to me that some antivirus-type programs hook into file IO calls. Perhaps such a program is being invoked to scan the file after it is created and keeps it open for that brief instant long enough for mv to try to move it. Brian -- 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/