mv problem

Randall R Schulz rrschulz@cris.com
Fri May 3 09:21:00 GMT 2002


Hi,

I had to try this out to see how my system behaved. I saw something very 
interesting:


% mkdir yad
% mv yad YaD
mv: cannot copy a directory, `yad', into itself, `YaD/yad'

% find yad
yad
yad/yad

% ll -id YaD
66306041 drwxr-xr-x    3 RSchulz  None            0 May  3 09:08 YaD/

% ll -Ri yad
yad:
total 0
163374368 drwxr-xr-x    2 RSchulz  None            0 May  3 09:08 yad/

yad/yad:
total 0


I get the same behavior, modulo "inode" numbers on an NTFS and a FAT volume.


Miscellaneous system information:

% uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.0 CLEMENS 1.3.10(0.51/3/2) 2002-02-25 11:14 i686 unknown

% mv --version
mv (fileutils) 4.1
Written by Mike Parker, David MacKenzie, and Jim Meyering.

Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.


"Cygcheck -s" output is attached. Excerpts here:

...

Windows 2000 Professional Ver 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 2

...

SysDir: D:\WINNT\System32
WinDir: D:\WINNT

CYGWIN = `binmode ntsec'

...

a:  fd           N/A    N/A
c:  hd  NTFS   10001Mb  38% CP CS UN PA FC     WIN2K
d:  hd  NTFS   11664Mb  50% CP CS UN PA FC     Win2K2niW
e:  hd  NTFS    4027Mb  94% CP CS UN PA FC     Stash
f:  cd           N/A    N/A
g:  cd  CDFS     647Mb 100%    CS UN           BOOKSHELF2K
h:  hd  FAT32    649Mb   1% CP    UN           BURNME

\\.\A:         /dev/fd0   user    binmode
.              /cygdrive  user    binmode,noumount
D:/cygwin      /          system  binmode
D:/cygwin/bin  /usr/bin   system  binmode
D:/cygwin/lib  /usr/lib   system  binmode

Found: D:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe
Found: D:\cygwin\bin\cat.exe
Found: D:\cygwin\bin\cpp.exe
Found: D:\cygwin\bin\find.exe
Found: D:\cygwin\bin\gcc.exe
Found: D:\cygwin\bin\gdb.exe
Found: D:\cygwin\bin\ld.exe
Found: D:\cygwin\bin\ls.exe
Found: D:\cygwin\bin\make.exe
Found: D:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe

...

     Cygwin DLL version info:
         DLL version: 1.3.10
         DLL epoch: 19
         DLL bad signal mask: 19005
         DLL old termios: 5
         DLL malloc env: 28
         API major: 0
         API minor: 51
         Shared data: 3
         DLL identifier: cygwin1
         Mount registry: 2
         Cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions
         Cygwin registry name: Cygwin
         Program options name: Program Options
         Cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2
         Cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags
         Cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix
         Cygdrive default prefix:
         Build date: Mon Feb 25 11:14:34 EST 2002
         Shared id: cygwin1S3

...

fileutils           4.1-1

...



--
Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 23:16 2002-05-02, Sylvain Petreolle wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'm using cygwin version 1.3.10 with all updated packages.
>
>mv --version reports : mv (fileutils) 4.1
>(cygcheck reports exactly fileutils 4.1-1)
>This is reproductible with every directory.
>
>Steps I follow :
>
>mkdir mydir
>mv mydir MyDir (or Mydir, mydiR).
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Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics
Current System Time: Fri May 03 09:15:05 2002

Windows 2000 Professional Ver 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 2

Path:	.
	D:\cygwin\home\RSchulz\bin
	D:\cygwin\usr\sbin
	D:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin
	c:\j2sdk1.4.0\bin
	D:\cygwin\usr\local\bin
	D:\cygwin\bin
	D:\cygwin\bin
	d:\Apps\texmf\miktex\bin
	d:\Perl\bin\
	d:\Tcl\bin\
	d:\WINNT\system32
	d:\WINNT
	d:\WINNT\system32\WBEM
	d:\Apps\XEmacs\XEmacs-21.1.14\i586-pc-win32
	d:\Apps\GNUEmacs\emacs-20.7\bin
	D:\cygwin\bin
	D:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin
	.
	d:\WN16\BIN

SysDir: D:\WINNT\System32
WinDir: D:\WINNT

CYGWIN = `binmode ntsec'
HOME = `D:\cygwin\home\RSchulz'
MAKE_MODE = `unix'
PWD = `/h'
TCL_LIBRARY = `D:\WN16\LIB\TCL7.6'
USER = `RSchulz'

Use `-r' to scan registry

a:  fd           N/A    N/A                    
c:  hd  NTFS   10001Mb  38% CP CS UN PA FC     WIN2K
d:  hd  NTFS   11664Mb  50% CP CS UN PA FC     Win2K2niW
e:  hd  NTFS    4027Mb  94% CP CS UN PA FC     Stash
f:  cd           N/A    N/A                    
g:  cd  CDFS     647Mb 100%    CS UN           BOOKSHELF2K
h:  hd  FAT32    649Mb   1% CP    UN           BURNME

\\.\A:         /dev/fd0   user    binmode
.              /cygdrive  user    binmode,noumount
D:/cygwin      /          system  binmode
D:/cygwin/bin  /usr/bin   system  binmode
D:/cygwin/lib  /usr/lib   system  binmode

Found: D:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe
Found: D:\cygwin\bin\cat.exe
Found: D:\cygwin\bin\cpp.exe
Found: D:\cygwin\bin\find.exe
Found: D:\cygwin\bin\gcc.exe
Found: D:\cygwin\bin\gdb.exe
Found: D:\cygwin\bin\ld.exe
Found: D:\cygwin\bin\ls.exe
Found: D:\cygwin\bin\make.exe
Found: D:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe

   54k 2002/01/27 D:\cygwin\bin\cygbz21.0.dll
  621k 2002/01/16 D:\cygwin\bin\cygcrypto.dll
  108k 2002/04/15 D:\cygwin\bin\cygcurl-2.dll
   50k 2002/03/17 D:\cygwin\bin\cygexslt-0.dll
   45k 2001/04/25 D:\cygwin\bin\cygform5.dll
   35k 2002/01/09 D:\cygwin\bin\cygform6.dll
   19k 2002/02/20 D:\cygwin\bin\cyggdbm.dll
   17k 2001/06/28 D:\cygwin\bin\cyghistory4.dll
   20k 2002/01/13 D:\cygwin\bin\cyghistory5.dll
  306k 2002/04/27 D:\cygwin\bin\cyghttpd.dll
   22k 2001/12/13 D:\cygwin\bin\cygintl-1.dll
   21k 2001/06/20 D:\cygwin\bin\cygintl.dll
   81k 2000/12/05 D:\cygwin\bin\cygitcl30.dll
   35k 2000/12/05 D:\cygwin\bin\cygitk30.dll
   45k 2002/02/08 D:\cygwin\bin\cygjbig1.dll
  119k 2002/02/09 D:\cygwin\bin\cygjpeg6b.dll
   25k 2002/03/17 D:\cygwin\bin\cygltdl-3.dll
   26k 2001/04/25 D:\cygwin\bin\cygmenu5.dll
   20k 2002/01/09 D:\cygwin\bin\cygmenu6.dll
  156k 2001/04/25 D:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses++5.dll
  175k 2002/01/09 D:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses++6.dll
  226k 2001/04/25 D:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses5.dll
  202k 2002/01/09 D:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses6.dll
   15k 2001/04/25 D:\cygwin\bin\cygpanel5.dll
   12k 2002/01/09 D:\cygwin\bin\cygpanel6.dll
   40k 2001/11/21 D:\cygwin\bin\cygpcre.dll
   39k 2001/11/21 D:\cygwin\bin\cygpcreposix.dll
  171k 2002/04/19 D:\cygwin\bin\cygpng10.dll
  170k 2002/01/21 D:\cygwin\bin\cygpng2.dll
  108k 2001/06/28 D:\cygwin\bin\cygreadline4.dll
  121k 2002/01/13 D:\cygwin\bin\cygreadline5.dll
   66k 2001/11/20 D:\cygwin\bin\cygregex.dll
  156k 2002/01/16 D:\cygwin\bin\cygssl.dll
  390k 2000/12/05 D:\cygwin\bin\cygtcl80.dll
    5k 2000/12/05 D:\cygwin\bin\cygtclpip80.dll
   10k 2000/12/05 D:\cygwin\bin\cygtclreg80.dll
  253k 2002/02/10 D:\cygwin\bin\cygtiff3.dll
  623k 2000/12/05 D:\cygwin\bin\cygtk80.dll
 1248k 2002/03/17 D:\cygwin\bin\cygxml2-2.dll
   41k 2002/01/20 D:\cygwin\bin\cygXpm-noX4.dll
   46k 2002/01/20 D:\cygwin\bin\cygXpm-X4.dll
  152k 2002/03/17 D:\cygwin\bin\cygxslt-1.dll
   15k 2002/03/17 D:\cygwin\bin\cygxsltbreakpoint-1.dll
   50k 2002/03/12 D:\cygwin\bin\cygz.dll
  751k 2002/02/25 D:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll
    Cygwin DLL version info:
        DLL version: 1.3.10
        DLL epoch: 19
        DLL bad signal mask: 19005
        DLL old termios: 5
        DLL malloc env: 28
        API major: 0
        API minor: 51
        Shared data: 3
        DLL identifier: cygwin1
        Mount registry: 2
        Cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions
        Cygwin registry name: Cygwin
        Program options name: Program Options
        Cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2
        Cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags
        Cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix
        Cygdrive default prefix: 
        Build date: Mon Feb 25 11:14:34 EST 2002
        Shared id: cygwin1S3


Cygwin Package Information
Package             Version             
apache              1.3.24-3            
ash                 20020131-1          
autoconf            2.53-1              
autoconf-devel      2.53-1              
autoconf-stable     2.13-4              
automake            1.6a-1              
automake-devel      1.6-1               
automake-stable     1.4p5-5             
bash                2.05a-3             
bc                  1.06-1              
binutils            20011002-1          
bison               1.35-1              
byacc               1.9-1               
bzip2               1.0.2-1             
clear               1.0-1               
compface            1.4-5               
cpio                2.4.2               
cron                3.0.1-6             
crypt               1.0-1               
ctags               5.2-1               
curl                7.9.6-1             
cvs                 1.11.0-1            
cygrunsrv           0.95-1              
cygutils            1.0.0-1             
cygwin              1.3.10-1            
cygwin-doc          1.0-1               
dejagnu             20010117-1          
diff                0.0                 
ed                  0.2-1               
enscript            1.6.3-2             
expect              20010117-1          
figlet              2.2-1               
file                3.37-1              
fileutils           4.1-1               
findutils           4.1                 
flex                2.5.4-1             
fortune             1.8-2               
gawk                3.0.4-1             
gcc                 2.95.3-5            
gdb                 20010428-3          
gdbm                1.8.0-4             
gettext             0.10.40-1           
ghostscript         6.51-4              
gnugo               3.2-1               
gperf               0.0                 
grep                2.5-1               
groff               1.17.2-1            
gzip                1.3.2-1             
indent              2.2.7-2             
inetutils           1.3.2-17            
irc                 20010101-1          
jbigkit             1.2-6               
jpeg                6b-7                
keychain            1.8-1               
less                374-1               
libbz2_0            1.0.2-1             
libintl             0.10.38-3           
libintl1            0.10.40-1           
libncurses5         5.2-1               
libncurses6         5.2-8               
libpng              1.0.13-1            
libpng10            1.0.13-1            
libpng10-devel      1.0.13-1            
libpng2             1.0.12-1            
libreadline4        4.1-2               
libreadline5        4.2a-1              
libtool             20020202a-1         
libtool-devel       20020316-1          
libtool-stable      1.4.2-2             
libxml2             2.4.17-1            
libxslt             1.0.13-1            
links               0.96-1              
login               1.4-3               
lynx                2.8.4-1             
m4                  0.0                 
make                3.79.1-5            
man                 1.5g-2              
mingw               20010917-1          
mingw-runtime       1.3-2               
mktemp              1.4-1               
more                2.11o-1             
mt                  2.0.1-1             
mutt                1.2.5i-6            
nano                1.0.7-1             
ncftp               3.1.3-1             
ncurses             5.2-8               
newlib-man          20001118-1          
opengl              1.1.0-6             
openssh             3.1p1-1             
openssl             0.9.6c-3            
openssl-devel       0.9.6c-2            
patch               2.5-3               
pcre                3.7-1               
perl                5.6.1-2             
pine                4.44-1              
pkgconfig           0.12.0-1            
popt                1.6.2-1             
postgresql          7.2.1-1             
python              2.2-1               
rcs                 5.7-3               
readline            4.2a-1              
regex               4.4-2               
robots              2.0-1               
rsync               2.5.5-1             
rxvt                2.7.2-10            
sed                 3.02-1              
sh-utils            2.0-2               
sharutils           4.2.1-2             
shutdown            1.2-2               
squid               2.4-STABLE20010508  
ssmtp               2.38.7-3            
swig                1.3.11-1            
tar                 1.13.19-1           
tcltk               20001125-1          
tcsh                6.11.00-4           
termcap             20020403-1          
terminfo            5.2-1               
tetex-beta          20001218-4          
texinfo             4.1-1               
texmf               20000804-2          
texmf-base          20000804-2          
texmf-doc           20000804-2          
texmf-extra         20000804-2          
texmf-tiny          20000804-2          
textutils           2.0.21-1            
tiff                3.5.7-1             
time                1.7-1               
ttcp                19980512-1          
ucl                 1.01-1              
units               1.77-1              
unzip               5.41-1              
upx                 1.20-1              
vim                 6.1-2               
w32api              1.3-2               
wget                1.8.1-1             
which               1.5-1               
whois               4.5.17-1            
xpm-nox             4.2.0-1             
zip                 2.3-1               
zlib                1.1.4-1             

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