>Number: 173039
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: [mv][patch] don't prompt the user if stdin isn't a TTY
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Wed Oct 24 21:20:01 UTC 2012
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Mark Johnston
>Release: CURRENT
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD oddish.laptop 10.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #13
r240519+3cc2dea-dirty: Sat Sep 15 22:29:45 EDT 2012
[email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/home/mark/src/freebsd/sys/GENERIC amd64
>Description:
According to POSIX, when the dst file already exists, mv(1) should only prompt
the user if -i is specified, or if the file isn't writable and stdin is a
terminal. FreeBSD's mv(1) doesn't check this latter condition and exits early
when it receives EOF from the "user."
This is "step 1" in the POSIX description of mv:
If the destination path exists, the -f option is not specified, and either
of the following conditions is true:
- The permissions of the destination path do not permit writing and the
standard input is a terminal.
- The -i option is specified.
the mv utility shall write a prompt to standard error and read a line from
standard input. If the response is not affirmative, mv shall do nothing more
with the current source_file and go on to any remaining source_files.
>How-To-Repeat:
$ alias mv=mv # just in case mv is aliased to mv -i
$ touch foo1 foo2
$ chmod a-w foo2
$ mv foo1 foo2 0>/dev/null
override r--r--r-- mark/mark for foo2? (y/n [n]) not overwritten
$ ls foo1
foo1
$
On NetBSD and Linux, mv(1) continues and renames foo1 to foo2.
>Fix:
Apply the attached patch.
Patch attached with submission follows:
diff --git a/bin/mv/mv.c b/bin/mv/mv.c
index d33b28d..5147a2db 100644
--- a/bin/mv/mv.c
+++ b/bin/mv/mv.c
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ do_move(const char *from, const char *to)
} else if (iflg) {
(void)fprintf(stderr, "overwrite %s? %s", to, YESNO);
ask = 1;
- } else if (access(to, W_OK) && !stat(to, &sb)) {
+ } else if (access(to, W_OK) && !stat(to, &sb) &&
isatty(STDIN_FILENO)) {
strmode(sb.st_mode, modep);
(void)fprintf(stderr, "override %s%s%s/%s for %s? %s",
modep + 1, modep[9] == ' ' ? "" : " ",
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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