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Wrong diagnostic when moving file from unwritable dir
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Andreas Schwab |
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Wrong diagnostic when moving file from unwritable dir |
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Date: |
Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:23:53 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) |
When moving a file between filesystems, and the source directory is
unwritable, the diagnostic given by mv is wrong:
$ mkdir /tmp/x; touch /tmp/x/y; chmod -w /tmp/x
$ test $(stat -c %d /tmp/x) -ne $(stat -c %d .); echo $?
0
$ mv /tmp/x/y .
mv: cannot remove `/tmp/x/y': Not a directory
Andreas.
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- Wrong diagnostic when moving file from unwritable dir,
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