Phillip Susi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Andreas Schwab wrote: >> "Chris Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> $ mv dir .. >>> mv: cannot move `dir' to a subdirectory of itself, `../dir' >> >> With coreutils 6.9 you'll get "Directory not empty". > > That also seems incorrect. Shouldn't the error be "A file ( directory ) > with that name already exists"?
No. If the directory was empty it would just be overwritten, so the non-emptyness is the key for the error (and it's directly the error the kernel returns). Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
