On 16/11/14 16:35, Paul Eggert wrote: > Pádraig Brady wrote: >> If we change this, it's much more likely that people will start complaining >> about their non overlapping mv instances failing. > > I'd far rather deal with those complaints than deal with complaints about > 'mv' silently discarding files. Either the FreeBSD or the Solaris behavior > would be a real improvement over what we're doing now. Neither behavior is > as good as having support in the kernel for doing the right thing, but one > step at a time.
Fair enough. That's 3 votes for changing this. I'll work on a patch to fail in this case. thanks, Pádraig.
