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| To: | Tony Clayton <apc AT e-smith DOT com> |
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| Subject: | Re: cygwin 1.5.3: "/bin/mv dir dir" results in recursive-loop copy |
| In-Reply-To: | <20031112161255.GS5171@e-smith.com> (Tony Clayton's message of "Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:12:55 -0500") |
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| From: | Jim Meyering <jim AT meyering DOT net> |
| Date: | Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:11:58 +0100 |
| Message-ID: | <85smkrqppd.fsf@pi.meyering.net> |
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Tony Clayton <apc AT e-smith DOT com> wrote: > in cygwin 1.5.3, I got the following error after a moment: > mv: cannot create directory `src/src/src/src/src/src/src [...] /src': > Invalid argument mv (from any recent coreutils package) works fine in that case on unix systems. > I think it is the MAX_PATH=256 limitation that finally brings this to a > halt. Each of the subdirectories contains all the source files and a src > directory. > > Running "mv --version shows: > mv (fileutils) 4.1 > ... fileutils-4.1 is quite old. I suggest you use something newer STABLE ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.tar.gz ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.tar.bz2 (coreutils is the union of fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils) BETA ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.91.tar.gz ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.91.tar.bz2 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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