Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watcgl!idallen
From: "Ian! D. Allen [CGL]" <idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Subject: Ultrix 4.1 still has the mv/rename symlink bug?
Message-ID: <1991Jan29.221803.28905@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Sender: idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Ian! D. Allen [CGL])
Organization: Computer Graphics Laboratory, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 91 22:18:03 GMT
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I thought the Ultrix gurus would have fixed this mv/rename bug ages ago.
It's been around since at least Ultrix 2.1!

    Script started on Tue Jan 29 17:04:27 1991
    % cd /tmp
    % mkdir a foo
    % ln -s foo bar
    % cd a
    % mkdir xxx
    % mv xxx /tmp/bar/xxx
    mv: /tmp/bar/xxx: rename: No such file or directory
    % mv xxx /tmp/foo/xxx
    % mv /tmp/bar/xxx xxx
    % mv xxx /tmp/bar/xxx
    mv: /tmp/bar/xxx: rename: No such file or directory
    % echo mv across a symlink is still broken on Ultrix 4.1

This can really get you if you're in /usr/tmp (a symlink to var/tmp)
and you try to move directories around.

DECsystem 5400 running "ULTRIX V4.1 (Rev. 52)"
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-IAN! (Ian! D. Allen) idallen@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu
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