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Re: mv problem


Good point!  I looked at this after receiving your mail and I see the same
thing.  So the error you and I see is incorrect.  I wonder if it's related to 
the inode hash problem reported and patched earlier this week...

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At 12:20 PM 5/3/2002, Randall R Schulz wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I had to try this out to see how my system behaved. I saw something very interesting:
>
>
>% mkdir yad
>% mv yad YaD
>mv: cannot copy a directory, `yad', into itself, `YaD/yad'
>
>% find yad
>yad
>yad/yad
>
>% ll -id YaD
>66306041 drwxr-xr-x    3 RSchulz  None            0 May  3 09:08 YaD/
>
>% ll -Ri yad
>yad:
>total 0
>163374368 drwxr-xr-x    2 RSchulz  None            0 May  3 09:08 yad/
>
>yad/yad:
>total 0
>
>
>I get the same behavior, modulo "inode" numbers on an NTFS and a FAT volume.
>
>
>Miscellaneous system information:
>
>% uname -a
>CYGWIN_NT-5.0 CLEMENS 1.3.10(0.51/3/2) 2002-02-25 11:14 i686 unknown
>
>% mv --version
>mv (fileutils) 4.1
>Written by Mike Parker, David MacKenzie, and Jim Meyering.
>
>Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
>warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
>
>
>"Cygcheck -s" output is attached. Excerpts here:
>
>...
>
>Windows 2000 Professional Ver 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 2
>
>...
>
>SysDir: D:\WINNT\System32
>WinDir: D:\WINNT
>
>CYGWIN = `binmode ntsec'
>
>...
>
>a:  fd           N/A    N/A
>c:  hd  NTFS   10001Mb  38% CP CS UN PA FC     WIN2K
>d:  hd  NTFS   11664Mb  50% CP CS UN PA FC     Win2K2niW
>e:  hd  NTFS    4027Mb  94% CP CS UN PA FC     Stash
>f:  cd           N/A    N/A
>g:  cd  CDFS     647Mb 100%    CS UN           BOOKSHELF2K
>h:  hd  FAT32    649Mb   1% CP    UN           BURNME
>
>\\.\A:         /dev/fd0   user    binmode
>.              /cygdrive  user    binmode,noumount
>D:/cygwin      /          system  binmode
>D:/cygwin/bin  /usr/bin   system  binmode
>D:/cygwin/lib  /usr/lib   system  binmode
>
>Found: D:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe
>Found: D:\cygwin\bin\cat.exe
>Found: D:\cygwin\bin\cpp.exe
>Found: D:\cygwin\bin\find.exe
>Found: D:\cygwin\bin\gcc.exe
>Found: D:\cygwin\bin\gdb.exe
>Found: D:\cygwin\bin\ld.exe
>Found: D:\cygwin\bin\ls.exe
>Found: D:\cygwin\bin\make.exe
>Found: D:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe
>
>...
>
>     Cygwin DLL version info:
>         DLL version: 1.3.10
>         DLL epoch: 19
>         DLL bad signal mask: 19005
>         DLL old termios: 5
>         DLL malloc env: 28
>         API major: 0
>         API minor: 51
>         Shared data: 3
>         DLL identifier: cygwin1
>         Mount registry: 2
>         Cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions
>         Cygwin registry name: Cygwin
>         Program options name: Program Options
>         Cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2
>         Cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags
>         Cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix
>         Cygdrive default prefix:
>         Build date: Mon Feb 25 11:14:34 EST 2002
>         Shared id: cygwin1S3
>
>...
>
>fileutils           4.1-1
>
>...
>
>
>
>--
>Randall Schulz
>Mountain View, CA USA
>
>
>At 23:16 2002-05-02, Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I'm using cygwin version 1.3.10 with all updated packages.
>>
>>mv --version reports : mv (fileutils) 4.1
>>(cygcheck reports exactly fileutils 4.1-1)
>>This is reproductible with every directory.
>>
>>Steps I follow :
>>
>>mkdir mydir
>>mv mydir MyDir (or Mydir, mydiR).
>
>
>
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