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mingw: when running in a Windows container, try to rename() harder
It is a known issue that a rename() can fail with an "Access denied" error at times, when copying followed by deleting the original file works. Let's just fall back to that behavior. Signed-off-by: JiSeop Moon <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>
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compat/mingw.c

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@@ -2365,6 +2365,13 @@ int mingw_rename(const char *pold, const char *pnew)
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return 0;
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gle = GetLastError();
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if (gle == ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED && is_inside_windows_container()) {
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/* Fall back to copy to destination & remove source */
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if (CopyFileW(wpold, wpnew, FALSE) && !mingw_unlink(pold))
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return 0;
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gle = GetLastError();
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}
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/* revert file attributes on failure */
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if (attrs != INVALID_FILE_ATTRIBUTES)
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SetFileAttributesW(wpnew, attrs);

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