Re: mv bug

[Michael Schroeder]

address@hidden (Bruno Haible) writes:

>GNU mv, when asked to move a file onto one of its hardlinked aliases,
>does nothing.

This is (unfortunatelly) the way it is defined in the standard,
e.g. in the single unix specification:

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/rename.html

    If the old argument and the new argument both refer to, and both
    link to the same existing file, rename() returns successfully and
    performs no other action. 

Other versions of 'mv' print an error message instead of doing
nothing. Anyway, you have to make do with the broken specification.

Cheers,
  Michael.

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