From:	sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
Message-Id:	<10307291936.AA13490@clio.rice.edu>
Subject:	mv bug (filutils? library?)
To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com (DJGPP developers)
Date:	Tue, 29 Jul 2003 14:36:07 -0500 (CDT)
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Noticed by someone else and passed onto me:

Create a directory with long name:

mkdir thisisalong
cd thisisalong
mkdir junk
mv junk junk

This will create junk\junk\... nesting until it fails.

If you do the test under a short name it seems to work correctly (gives
a message about cannot move 'junk' to a subdirectory of itself).

I have verified this behavior under Win98 and Windows 2000 using an older
copy of the filutils - but I am told it is seen on newer versions as 
well.

A quick look at copy.c source seems that 'copy_into_self' flag doesn't
work properly if path contains long names.

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