Re: bug in mv

[Mark Laws]

I am running 4.0.

On my machine, mv segfaults, but on other machines, it says:

mv: blah_stuff/blah_stuff/blah_a: won't create hard link `blah_stuff/blah_a' to
directory `blah_a'

Mark Laws - "What's wrong with running away from reality if reality
sucks?" -- Neon Genesis Evangelion

On 4 Mar 2001, Jim Meyering wrote:

> Date: 04 Mar 2001 19:40:24 +0100
> From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
> To: Mark Laws <address@hidden>
> Cc: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: bug in mv
> 
> Mark Laws <address@hidden> wrote:
> | $ mkdir blah_stuff
> | $ mkdir blah_a
> | $ mv blah_* blah_stuff
> | mv: Segmentation fault
> |
> | The directory is successfully moved, but I thought I should report the bug
> | anyway. I'm running Linux 2.2.18 with glibc-2.1.3.
> 
> Thanks for the report.
> What version of mv are you using (run mv --version)?
> Can you reproduce the failure?
> If so, (and especially if you're using a recent test release)
> I'd really like to know more.
> 
> The latest test release is here:
>   ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/fileutils-4.0.41.tar.gz
>