Ultrix 4.1 still has the mv/rename symlink bug?
Ian! D. Allen [CGL]
idallen at watcgl.waterloo.edu
Wed Jan 30 09:18:03 AEST 1991
I thought the Ultrix gurus would have fixed this mv/rename bug ages ago.
It's been around since at least Ultrix 2.1!
Script started on Tue Jan 29 17:04:27 1991
% cd /tmp
% mkdir a foo
% ln -s foo bar
% cd a
% mkdir xxx
% mv xxx /tmp/bar/xxx
mv: /tmp/bar/xxx: rename: No such file or directory
% mv xxx /tmp/foo/xxx
% mv /tmp/bar/xxx xxx
% mv xxx /tmp/bar/xxx
mv: /tmp/bar/xxx: rename: No such file or directory
% echo mv across a symlink is still broken on Ultrix 4.1
This can really get you if you're in /usr/tmp (a symlink to var/tmp)
and you try to move directories around.
DECsystem 5400 running "ULTRIX V4.1 (Rev. 52)"
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-IAN! (Ian! D. Allen) idallen at watcgl.uwaterloo.ca idallen at watcgl.waterloo.edu
[129.97.128.64] Computer Graphics Lab/University of Waterloo/Ontario/Canada
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