Re: Mv after tar in a shell script problems

[Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>]

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

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