bug#21713: On CIFS, mv behaves as mv -f

2015-10-19 Thread Sam Kuper
On a system where `df -T` shows the file system to be "cifs" (presumably the Common Internet File System from Microsoft: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc939973.aspx ), running `mv` causes unexpected behaviour. Essentially, `mv` behaves as though `mv -f` had been used. Example, using

bug#21713: On CIFS, mv behaves as mv -f

2015-10-19 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 19/10/15 13:49, Sam Kuper wrote: > On a system where `df -T` shows the file system to be "cifs" > (presumably the Common Internet File System from Microsoft: > https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc939973.aspx ), running > `mv` causes unexpected behaviour. Essentially, `mv` behaves as

bug#21713: On CIFS, mv behaves as mv -f

2015-10-19 Thread Sam Kuper
On 19/10/2015, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 19/10/15 13:49, Sam Kuper wrote: >> On a system where `df -T` shows the file system to be "cifs" >> (presumably the Common Internet File System from Microsoft: >> https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc939973.aspx ), running >>

bug#21713: On CIFS, mv behaves as mv -f

2015-10-19 Thread Pádraig Brady
tag 21713 notabug close 21713 stop On 19/10/15 18:30, Sam Kuper wrote: > On 19/10/2015, Pádraig Brady wrote: >> On 19/10/15 13:49, Sam Kuper wrote: >>> On a system where `df -T` shows the file system to be "cifs" >>> (presumably the Common Internet File System from

bug#21713: On CIFS, mv behaves as mv -f

2015-10-19 Thread Sam Kuper
On 19/10/2015, Pádraig Brady wrote: > Right, so the file system is saying we can write to that file, > so not an issue with coreutils, rather a limitation of cifs, > or your cifs setup. Understood. My guess is that it is a limitation of CIFS. Unfortunately, I am not the