On Mar 26 19:48, Eric Blake wrote:
> $ mkdir example
> $ cd example
> $ touch foo
> $ strace mv foo bar/. 2>&1 |grep rename
> ~ 450 103717 [main] mv 2476 rename: 0 = rename
> (c:\cygwin\tmp\example\foo, c:\cygwin\tmp\example\bar\)
>
> That rename should have failed with ENOENT.
That was fixed in
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According to Keith Thompson on 3/26/2008 10:56 AM:
| (I used to use just "/", but Solaris for some supremely odd reason
| allows a file "foo" to be referred to as "foo/", so I've cultivated
| the habit of using "/.".)
Yes, that's a bug in older Solar
When I want to use "mv" to move a file into a directory, I've
habitually append "/." to the directory name, so that the command
will fail if the name actually refers to a file or if it doesn't exist.
(I used to use just "/", but Solaris for some supremely odd reason
allows a file "foo" to be refer
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 04:34:31AM -, Chris Ruffin wrote:
>mv from fileutils 4.1 doesn't use a case-insensitive test to make sure
>that we aren't doing something stupid like:
>
>$ mv A a
>
>where A is a directory. This causes mv to go into infinite recursion
>trying to move A to a, because wi
mv from fileutils 4.1 doesn't use a case-insensitive test to make sure that we aren't
doing something stupid like:
$ mv A a
where A is a directory. This causes mv to go into infinite recursion trying to move A
to a, because windows is case-insensitive.
Chris Ruffin
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