bug#34988: mv: check before asking users useless questions

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

> "LSS" == Leslie S Satenstein  writes:
LSS> Did you consider that more than one terminal can be open, and at the
LSS> second terminal, "b" could be renamed before replying to the mv
LSS> command?

I don't know about all that. Let's hope the designers consider all aspects.

bug#34988: mv: check before asking users useless questions

[Paul Eggert]

On 3/24/19 11:05 PM, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> $ mv a b
> mv: overwrite 'b'? y
> mv: cannot overwrite non-directory 'b' with directory 'a'
>
> User thinks well why didn't you check before uselessly asking me?

POSIX requires the useless question. That being said, the question could
be omitted in the case you describe, if POSIXLY_CORRECT is not specified.