From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
Message-Id: <10307292047.AA16973@clio.rice.edu>
Subject: Re: mv bug (filutils? library?)
To: eliz AT elta DOT co DOT il
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 15:47:33 -0500 (CDT)
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In-Reply-To: <8011-Tue29Jul2003232138+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> from "Eli Zaretskii" at Jul 29, 2003 11:21:39 PM
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> > From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
> > Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 14:36:07 -0500 (CDT)
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> What version fails like that?  I cannot reproduce the problem with
> Fileutils 4.0 on Windows 98.

I tried it on a Fileutils 4.0 version.  At first I was unable to 
reproduce the problem also.

Maybe the parent directory needs a space included in it under Win98
(I think the originator said that, I may have tested W98 that way,
but found Win2000 didn't need the space but did need a long name).