overwriting an in-use executable

[Andy Koppe]

2009/12/13 Eric Blake:
>> Same when trying to 'rm' an in-use executable: Works on 1.7, fails with
>> 'Permission denied' on 1.5. Cygwin 1.7 works like Linux here. I don't
>> know whether POSIX requires this behavior.
>
> POSIX allows both behaviors, but the cygwin 1.7 behavior is more like
> Linux and traditional unix semantics

And very useful it is, but I was wondering why it works with 'mv' but not 'cp'?

Andy

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