But do you also have a reproducible case for mv? I don't find one. Actually, I can't even reproduce the rm case (OSX 10.3.1)
costabel% tar zxf X11ForMacOSXSource-wwdc.tar.gz costabel% /bin/rm -rf X11ForMacOSXSource-wwdc costabel%
as in that irc conversation, panther's built-in /bin/rm doesn't do it because they implement it differently. I suspect the problem is because unless you're running Fink cvs (what will become 0.17.0), fink doesn't call full paths to the /bin version when it calls rm, so it's getting the broken fileutils one if it's installed.
I've not tried it with mv, but in coreutils it uses the same readdir() rm does, so it makes sense that it has issues as well.
I really want to believe it, but I still don't see the mechanism by which it can have this effect for some people and not for others (with apparently exactly the same system).
I'm not sure either, other than the possibility that some people have fileutils installed because of a dependency, and others don't.
I'm not positive this is the fix, but I am at least sure current fileutils is messed up, so it can't hurt to upgrade. =D
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