When moving a file between filesystems, and the source directory is
unwritable, the diagnostic given by mv is wrong:

$ mkdir /tmp/x; touch /tmp/x/y; chmod -w /tmp/x
$ test $(stat -c %d /tmp/x) -ne $(stat -c %d .); echo $?
0
$ mv /tmp/x/y .
mv: cannot remove `/tmp/x/y': Not a directory

Andreas.

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