Dear Gnu fileutils Maintainers:
This problem exists in version 4.0 running with RedHat Linux 6.1 or
Solaris 2.7 but not with version 3.12 running on Slackware 3.0.
If I try to mv a directory inside itself sometimes mv actually tries
to do this. Two examples suffice:
$ mkdir oops
$ cd oops
$ mkdir a b
$ touch a/f1 b/f2
$ mv a b b
mv: b/b/a: won't create hard link `b/b' to directory `(null)'
$ find .
.
./b
./b/f2
./b/a
./b/a/f1
./b/b
./b/b/f2
So there are now two copies of f2 and the directory b is duplicated
inside of b. If I change the order of the files in the move command
in the above example the correct behavior results.
$ mv b a b
mv: cannot move `b' to a subdirectory of itself, `b/b'
$ find .
.
./b
./b/f2
./b/a
./b/a/f1
The above examples are with a locally mounted drive. Worse things
can happen to NFS mounted devices but that is expected.
Thanks, Eric Olson
