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Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 23:36:41 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: bug in 'mv'
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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

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