On Fri, 26 Jul 2019 13:01:44 -0500
Eric Blake wrote:
> On 7/26/19 12:43 PM, Sergei Trofimovich wrote:
>
> > Is it an 'mv's bug or a feature to prevent hardlinked file clobbering?
> > If feels like an unnecessary restriction.
>
> It's a POSIX (mis-)feature that for hard links, rename("file1",
On 7/26/19 12:43 PM, Sergei Trofimovich wrote:
> Is it an 'mv's bug or a feature to prevent hardlinked file clobbering?
> If feels like an unnecessary restriction.
It's a POSIX (mis-)feature that for hard links, rename("file1", "file2")
is a mandatory no-op (no error, but also no change to the ex
The below is a bug initially reported by Xuefer at
https://bugs.gentoo.org/646412.
Reproducer:
$ mv --version
mv (GNU coreutils) 8.31
Packaged by Gentoo (8.31 (p0))
$ touch a.aa
$ ln a.aa b.bb
$ mv a.aa b.bb
mv: 'a.aa' and 'b.bb' are the same file
For comparison if fines are unre
