Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!sunic!tut!santra!jkp
From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: rename strangeness, a possible bug
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Date: 24 Aug 89 22:18:42 GMT
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Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
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jkp@joker.hut.fi 'src' 451: ls -lagF
total 4
drwxrwxr-x  4 root     staff         512 Aug 25 01:04 ./
drwxr-xr-x  6 nobody   wheel         512 Aug 23 23:33 ../
drwxr-xr-x  2 haa      staff         512 Aug 24 16:32 OS-hd-fix/
drwxrwxr-x  4 jkp      staff         512 Aug 25 01:04 local/
jkp@joker.hut.fi 'src' 452: 
jkp@joker.hut.fi 'src' 452: mv OS-hd-fix local
mv: OS-hd-fix: rename: Permission denied
jkp@joker.hut.fi 'src' 453: groups
staff wheel operator
jkp@joker.hut.fi 'src' 454: whoami
jkp

According to the documentation (rename(2) and mv(1)) there's no reason
the `mv OS-hd-fix local' shouldn't work.  This seems like a bug.

Environment: 4.3 BSD (news-os 3.2 on a Sony NWS-1830; Mt. Xinu's
bsd 4.3 on a uVax II; Sunos 4.0.1 on a Sun 4/260).

//Jyrki