B20: mv deletes files on error (NT)

Corinna Vinschen corinna.vinschen@cityweb.de
Wed Mar 31 19:45:00 GMT 1999


Chris Faylor wrote:
> 
> I'm not 100% certain (and I can't check right now) but I think that
> this should not be a problem in recent snapshots.  A net contributor
> supplied a patch to make "inode" generation case-insensitive.  That
> should make mv capable of detecting this problem and disallowing it.
> 
> -chris

Yes. `mv foo Foo' only outputs the message 

	mv: `foo' and `Foo' are the same file

in the recent snapshots.

Regards,
Corinna


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