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bug#9823: request for more correct error reporting of mv


From: Assaf Gordon
Subject: bug#9823: request for more correct error reporting of mv
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 21:15:52 -0600
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close 9823
stop

(triaging old bugs)

On 25/10/11 12:39 AM, Voelker, Bernhard wrote:
Eric Blake wrote:
Like I said earlier, POSIX allows either ENOTEMPTY or EEXIST, and Linux
happened to choose ENOTEMPTY.  Maybe special-casing that error and
converting to EEXIST would produce better output.  But someone would
have to submit a patch.

I think mv is right to say "Directory not empty". Let's look at
the opposite example, i.e. where the destination _is_ empty:

Given the above, and no further comments in 7 years,
I'm closing this bug.

-assaf






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