From: "Andrew Cottrell" <AndrewCottrell AT swiftdsl DOT com DOT au>
To: <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Cc: <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>, "Richard Dawe" <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Subject: RE: mv bug (filutils? library?)
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 18:46:42 +1000
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> > > The problem exists on my system (Windows XP) with Fileutils
> > version 4.1.
> > 
> > Are you using the fileutils from the gnu directory of the one
> > built with
> > 2.04?
> > Do you know if you are using the latest fileutils 4.1 release 
> > as there were
> > a few refreshes of it?
> 
> I can confirm the problem on Windows Server 2003 (RC1) with 
> the 4.1 package from the 2.04 test page on clio.
> 
> F:\kindofalongname>bin\mv junk junk
> mv: cannot move `junk' to `junk/junk': Permission denied (EACCES)
> 
> F:\KINDOF~1>find -mindepth 47 
> ./junk/junk/junk/junk/junk/junk/junk/junk/junk/junk/junk/junk/
> junk/junk/junk
> /junk/junk/junk/junk/junk/junk/junk/junk/junk/junk/junk/junk/j
> unk/junk/junk/
> junk/junk/junk/junk/junk/junk/junk/junk/junk/junk/junk/junk/ju
> nk/junk/junk/j
> unk/junk

Tim,

Thanks for this. I get this on XP when I use Richards sample in the other
email. 

I will look at this over the next few days in order and try to figure out
the problem.

I cannot figure out how many levels the junk goes to, but it just keeps
exanding in explorer.....

Andrew