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To: Tony Clayton <apc AT e-smith DOT com>
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, bug-fileutils AT gnu DOT org
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")
References: <20031112161255 DOT GS5171 AT e-smith DOT com>
From: Jim Meyering <jim AT meyering DOT net>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:11:58 +0100
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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

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