RE: Mv after tar in a shell script problems

2005-05-18 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> > Oh wait waitwaitwaitwaitwait... What this looks more like is my old > > nemesis > > - The Nosy Virus Scanner! Lessee here... Yep, still doing > it, let's > > check if... "ACTIVESHIELD" HAS TURNED ITSELF ON AGAIN... > > > > ...only, disabling it and even rebooting don't change anything, I

RE: Mv after tar in a shell script problems

2005-05-18 Thread Robb, Sam
> Oh wait waitwaitwaitwaitwait... What this looks more like is > my old nemesis > - The Nosy Virus Scanner! Lessee here... Yep, still doing > it, let's check > if... "ACTIVESHIELD" HAS TURNED ITSELF ON AGAIN... > > ...only, disabling it and even rebooting don't change > anything, I still get >

Re: Mv after tar in a shell script problems

2005-05-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 18 05:45, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > What about using strace or, better, gdb? Does it even occur > > under strace? > > As I said, WJFFM for hundreds of iterations. > > > > Corinna > > Oh wait waitwaitwaitwaitwait... What this looks more like is my old nemesis > - The Nosy Virus Scanne

Re: Mv after tar in a shell script problems

2005-05-18 Thread Brian Dessent
"Gary R. Van Sickle" wrote: > ...only, disabling it and even rebooting don't change anything, I still get > "Permission Denied"s. Gat dang, and I was just itching to put McAff... er, > I mean, a certain virus scanner manufacturer... back at the top of The List I don't know if it matters in this

RE: Mv after tar in a shell script problems

2005-05-18 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen > Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 5:01 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Mv after tar in a shell script problems > > On May 18 04:57, Gary R. Van Sickle

Re: Mv after tar in a shell script problems

2005-05-18 Thread Brian Dessent
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,

Re: Mv after tar in a shell script problems

2005-05-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 18 04:57, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > Unless tar is doing something like untarring to a temp directory and then > doing a shell-api move that it doesn't wait for. I don't know. I'll get a > test case together and... well, I'm sure then the problem will mysteriously > vanish. ;-) What abou

Re: Mv after tar in a shell script problems

2005-05-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 18 02:30, Brian Dessent wrote: > "Gary R. Van Sickle" wrote: > > > ...and, if I change the mv to a loop which keeps trying if there's a > > failure: > > > > while ! mv dir_name_file.tar.bz2_untars_to new_dir_name; do echo "retrying > > move..."; done > > > > it will eventually work afte

RE: Mv after tar in a shell script problems

2005-05-18 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Dessent > Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 4:31 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Mv after tar in a shell script problems > > "Gary R. Van Sickle" wrote:

Re: Mv after tar in a shell script problems

2005-05-18 Thread Brian Dessent
"Gary R. Van Sickle" wrote: > ...and, if I change the mv to a loop which keeps trying if there's a > failure: > > while ! mv dir_name_file.tar.bz2_untars_to new_dir_name; do echo "retrying > move..."; done > > it will eventually work after a few iterations. > > I... huh? > > I'll brew up a t

RE: Mv after tar in a shell script problems

2005-05-18 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> Am I losing my mind, or shouldn't this "just work"(tm) in a > shell script?: > > #!/bin/sh > # ^^ behaves the same if it's /bin/bash > > tar xvjf file.tar.bz2 > mv dir_name_file.tar.bz2_untars_to new_dir_name > > ??? > > About half the time I get "Permission denied" from mv, the > other