mv: preserving permissions for `./file': Invalid argument

[Richard Leeden]

Hi,

(Apologies if this is a duplicate post of this messages)

Since 7.1 I'm seeing an error message with mv when attempting to move files
from filesystems mounted on swap (such as /tmp and /var/run). I've only been
able to test on sparc Solaris and see the issue on Solaris 8 and 9 but not
on 10.

To reproduce:

root>touch /tmp/a
root>mv /tmp/a .
mv: preserving permissions for `./a': Invalid argument

The mv of the file does work though.

I don't see the problem when moving files within standard filesystems, or
when moving a file to /tmp or within /tmp - only when moving from /tmp to a
standard filesystem.

Richard
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