Re: "mv a b/" when b does not exist

[Jim Meyering]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I also would favor (B).  But we certainly need testsuite additions to
>> ensure that we don't introduce future regressions against this decision.
>
> OK, it'll be harder to test (B), since that relies on the test suite
> knowing what rename() does.  But I guess we can work around that.

It shouldn't be hard.
Just run a little perl snippet to determine what rename() does,
and base the expected results on that.