> From: Eric Siegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 19:50:29 -0400 > > I wonder what POSIX has to say about this?
POSIX says that FreeBSD "mv" conforms, and that Solaris "/bin/mv" and GNU "mv" do not conform. You can see the sad news in step 5 of: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/utilities/mv.html which says: If the duplication of the file characteristics fails for any reason, mv shall write a diagnostic message to standard error, but this failure shall not cause mv to modify its exit status. Solaris 9 "/usr/xpg4/bin/mv" does conform (it prints a warning), so Solaris is off the hook. Guess I'll need to file a bug report for GNU "mv". Sigh.
