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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2007-09-24 16:33:35 +0200
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2007-09-24 16:33:35 +0200
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* NEWS: The recent rm-diagnostic fix also affects cross-partition "mv".
-rw-r--r--ChangeLog2
-rw-r--r--NEWS9
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@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
2007-09-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
+ * NEWS: The recent rm-diagnostic fix also affects cross-partition "mv".
+
copy.c: Remove definitions of factored-out functions.
* src/copy.c: Include "file-set.h".
(seen_file, record_file): Remove functions that I factored
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index e8e20e098..35eefaaaf 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -204,7 +204,14 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
"rm -rf D" would emit an misleading diagnostic when failing to
remove a symbolic link within the unwritable directory, D.
- Introduced in coreutils-6.0.
+ Introduced in coreutils-6.0. Similarly, when a cross-partition
+ "mv" fails because the source directory is unwritable, it now gives
+ a reasonable diagnostic. Before, this would print
+ $ mkdir /tmp/x; touch /tmp/x/y; chmod -w /tmp/x;
+ $ test $(stat -c %d /tmp/x) -ne $(stat -c %d .) && mv /tmp/x/y .
+ mv: cannot remove `/tmp/x/y': Not a directory
+ Now it prints this:
+ mv: cannot remove `/tmp/x/y': Permission denied.
** New features