I agree with Paul suggestion for an error message.
In any case, Coreutils 5.93 message was better than the current one
On Sat, Jul 22, 2023 at 8:37 PM Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 2023-07-22 03:19, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> > Given the subtleties in this area,
> > I'd be reluctant to adjust diagnostics
Thanks to both of you. I installed the attached into Savannah master
coreutils. It implements the suggestion, except that later I noticed
that EMLINK and ETXTBSY can join the throng.
At some point it might make sense to scan for other direct or indirect
calls to renameat, renameat2, and linkat
On 22/07/2023 18:37, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 2023-07-22 03:19, Pádraig Brady wrote:
Given the subtleties in this area,
I'd be reluctant to adjust diagnostics here.
I looked into this a bit more. Given "mv dir e" where e/dir is an
existing nonempty directory, 7th Edition Unix fails this way:
On 2023-07-22 03:19, Pádraig Brady wrote:
Given the subtleties in this area,
I'd be reluctant to adjust diagnostics here.
I looked into this a bit more. Given "mv dir e" where e/dir is an
existing nonempty directory, 7th Edition Unix fails this way:
mv: e/dir exists
Solaris 10 mv fails th
On 21/07/2023 18:17, Nir Oren wrote:
*mv: error message "Directory not empty" is confusing *
description: when you try to move a directory to a location already
containing a directory with the same name it would just write "mv: cannot
move 'A' to 'B': Directory not empty"
first, this is technic
*mv: error message "Directory not empty" is confusing *
description: when you try to move a directory to a location already
containing a directory with the same name it would just write "mv: cannot
move 'A' to 'B': Directory not empty"
first, this is technically a wrong error message because ther
