Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 23:36:41 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: bug in 'mv' Message-ID: <20020120043641.GA8723@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 04:34:31AM -0000, Chris Ruffin wrote: >mv from fileutils 4.1 doesn't use a case-insensitive test to make sure >that we aren't doing something stupid like: > >$ mv A a > >where A is a directory. This causes mv to go into infinite recursion >trying to move A to a, because windows is case-insensitive. Submit a patch and it will be fixed. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/