Re: bug in mv

[Mark Laws]

Cool. Just thought I would report something that I found a little weird. :)


Mark Laws - "What's wrong with running away from reality if reality
sucks?" -- Neon Genesis Evangelion

On 4 Mar 2001, Jim Meyering wrote:

> Date: 04 Mar 2001 21:48:48 +0100
> From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
> To: Mark Laws <address@hidden>
> Cc: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: bug in mv
> 
> This time I actually read your entire message :-)
> That bug is fixed in the latest test release.
>   ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/fileutils-4.0.41.tar.gz
> With that, I get this:
> 
>   $ mv bla* blah_stuff
>   mv: cannot move `blah_stuff' to a subdirectory of itself, 
> `blah_stuff/blah_stuff'
>   [Exit 1]
> 
> Mark Laws <address@hidden> wrote:
> | I am running 4.0.
> |
> | On my machine, mv segfaults, but on other machines, it says:
> |
> | mv: blah_stuff/blah_stuff/blah_a: won't create hard link 
> `blah_stuff/blah_a' to
> | directory `blah_a'
>