Your message dated Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:54:07 +0100
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and subject line Bug#121776: fileutils: mv misbehaves when source pathname is a
symlink and ends in a /
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Package: fileutils
Version: 4.1-7
Severity: normal
First: are you still maintaining fileutils? The average age of a bug seems
to be over a year. I'd think it'd be rather important to keep such
an important package up to date?! If you're not maintaining
fileutils any more then could you please orphan it so someone can
pick it up and maintain it?
Second: I just did:
# ls -l
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 45 Nov 1 15:13 www.old -> /mnt/wal/www
# # www.old is a symlink to a directory ...
# df |grep mnt
wal:/exports/public 40012596 18207816 21804780 46% /mnt/wal
# # which resides on nfs
# mv www.old/ www
mv: reading `www.old/about_us/tpo/althea/althearc': Input/output error
mv: reading `www.old/about_us/pka/cv.html': Input/output error
# ls -l
drwxrwsr-x 11 tpo users 4096 Oct 19 16:49 www
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 45 Nov 1 15:13 www.old -> /mnt/wal/www
# # the link still exists along with the newly created copy
Now the info page states:
> _Warning_: If you try to move a symlink that points to a directory,
> and you specify the symlink with a trailing slash, then `mv' doesn't
> move the symlink but instead moves the directory referenced by the
> symlink. *Note Trailing slashes::.
which is what mv just did but:
> It first uses some of the same code that's used by `cp -a' to copy the
> requested directories and files, then (assuming the copy succeeded) it
> removes the originals. If the copy fails, then the part that was copied
> to the destination partition is removed.
Which clearly is not the case here.
*t
-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux tpo2 2.4.14-686 #1 Fri Nov 9 22:25:26 EST 2001 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages fileutils depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.4-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
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Version: 6.10-1
Hi,
The behaviour of "mv symlink-to-dir/ dir2" changed. It is still
inconsistent with the info documentation, but that bug is documented in
bug #343652.
I am closing bugs #121776 and #122233 since the incorrect behaviour
described by those bugs no longer happens.
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