Thanks for the report.
That's fixed in the latest test release.
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| Dear Gnu fileutils Maintainers:
|
| This problem exists in version 4.0 running with RedHat Linux 6.1 or
| Solaris 2.7 but not with version 3.12 running on Slackware 3.0.
|
| If I try to mv a directory inside itself sometimes mv actually tries
| to do this. Two examples suffice:
|
| $ mkdir oops
| $ cd oops
| $ mkdir a b
| $ touch a/f1 b/f2
| $ mv a b b
| mv: b/b/a: won't create hard link `b/b' to directory `(null)'
| $ find .
| .
| ./b
| ./b/f2
| ./b/a
| ./b/a/f1
| ./b/b
| ./b/b/f2
|
| So there are now two copies of f2 and the directory b is duplicated
| inside of b. If I change the order of the files in the move command
| in the above example the correct behavior results.
|
| $ mv b a b
| mv: cannot move `b' to a subdirectory of itself, `b/b'
| $ find .
| .
| ./b
| ./b/f2
| ./b/a
| ./b/a/f1
|
| The above examples are with a locally mounted drive. Worse things
| can happen to NFS mounted devices but that is expected.
|
| Thanks, Eric Olson
