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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: rename strangeness, a possible bug
Message-ID: <2388@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 26 Aug 89 22:40:41 GMT
References: <24612@santra.UUCP> <8352@boring.cwi.nl> <647@cbnewsi.ATT.COM> <Aug.25.20.08.36.1989.12245@pilot.njin.net> <1078@virtech.UUCP>
Reply-To: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>One of them is what happens when you move a directory to a
>sub-directory of itself.  Consider the following:
>
>	directory structure:	/a/dir1/dir2/dir3/dir4/dir5
>
>		command:	mv /a/dir1 /a/dir1/dir2
>
>		command:	(in /a/dir1/dir2) mv .. dir3k

	Script started on Sat Aug 26 15:38:07 1989
	auspex% cat /etc/motd
	SunOS Release 4.0 (AUSPEX) #1: Thu Jun 1 06:56:44 PDT 1989
	auspex% mv /tmp/dir1 /tmp/dir1/dir2
	mv: /tmp/dir1: rename: Invalid argument
	auspex% cd /tmp/dir1/dir2
	auspex% mv .. dir3k
	mv: ..: rename: Invalid argument
	auspex% ^D
	script done on Sat Aug 26 15:38:22 1989

SunOS and, I think, other systems that have picked "rename" up from
4.xBSD, won't let you do such a move.  They will let you do other "safe"
moves, though.