[issue26791] shutil.move fails to move symlink (Invalid cross-device link)

Irit Katriel added the comment: Removing old versions. -- nosy: +iritkatriel versions: +Python 3.11 -Python 2.7, Python 3.5, Python 3.6, Python 3.7, Python 3.8 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue26791] shutil.move fails to move symlink (Invalid cross-device link)

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[issue26791] shutil.move fails to move symlink (Invalid cross-device link)

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[issue26791] shutil.move fails to move symlink (Invalid cross-device link)

Jeffrey Kintscher added the comment: SilentGhost's analysis is correct. The provided example code causes the error because it is trying to move the symlink into its target when the target is a directory. Any cross-device moving issues are unrelated to this example code. Here is the relevan

[issue26791] shutil.move fails to move symlink (Invalid cross-device link)

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[issue26791] shutil.move fails to move symlink (Invalid cross-device link)

Murray Wilson added the comment: It also happens when moving a file in linux from an xfs filesystem to a NFS mounted filesystem. -- nosy: +Murray Wilson ___ Python tracker __

[issue26791] shutil.move fails to move symlink (Invalid cross-device link)

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[issue26791] shutil.move fails to move symlink (Invalid cross-device link)

SilentGhost added the comment: This seems to be only triggered when moving a symlink into its destination. Assumption in the code is that when _samefile returns True, it must be due to case-insensitive filesystem, rather than this edge case. -- nosy: +SilentGhost, tarek type: -> behav

[issue26791] shutil.move fails to move symlink (Invalid cross-device link)

Renato Alves added the comment: Also related to http://bugs.python.org/issue212317 -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mail

[issue26791] shutil.move fails to move symlink (Invalid cross-device link)

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[issue26791] shutil.move fails to move symlink (Invalid cross-device link)

New submission from Renato Alves: Hi everyone, I'm not really sure if this is a new issue but digging through the bug reports from the past I couldn't find an answer. There's http://bugs.python.org/issue1438480 but this seems to be a different issue. I also found http://bugs.python.org/issue99