martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Package: coreutils
> Version: 5.97-3
> Severity: minor
> File: /bin/mv
> Tags: upstream
>
> lapse:/tmp/cdt.d.G14944> mkdir -p foo/bar/a bar/b
> #[314]
> lapse:/tmp/cdt.d.G14944> mv foo/bar .
> #[315]
> mv: cannot move `foo/bar' to a subdirectory of itself, `./bar'
>
> Huh? Sure, I am trying to overwrite bar, which would fail anyway,
> but I am not moving foo/bar to a subdirectory of itself...
Thanks for the report.
I doubt this is worth changing on coreutils' stable branch.
In coreutils-6.0, I get this:
mv: cannot move `foo/bar' to `./bar': Directory not empty
because the attempted rename fails:
rename("foo/bar", "./bar") = -1 ENOTEMPTY (Directory not empty)
That diagnostic makes sense if you know that the
rename would have succeeded if ./bar had been empty.
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