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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2006-09-08 17:08:53 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2006-09-08 17:08:53 +0000 |
| commit | d7619b5fe899074ef196154b2eec54d51290d450 (patch) | |
| tree | b9ce1d8b1456ecc09756cec92f39451542830c6a /NEWS | |
| parent | fc1e25cfa5d3dd30062ec481e44a90e66a40a6aa (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-d7619b5fe899074ef196154b2eec54d51290d450.tar.xz | |
mv and "cp -r" no longer fail when invoked with two arguments
where the first one names a directory and the second name ends in
a slash and doesn't exist. E.g., "mv dir B/", for nonexistent B,
now succeeds, once more. This reverts part of the 2004-06-27
change for 5.3.0.
* NEWS: Say the above.
* src/mv.c (target_directory_operand): Don't require (here)
that the target operand "look like" a directory. This change
pushes the test down to the rename syscall level, where a
"mv dir existing-non-dir/" will mistakenly succeed on older systems
that ignore trailing slashes in the rename destination argument.
* src/cp.c (target_directory_operand): Likewise, but for cp.
* tests/mv/trailing-slash: Exercise the above fixes.
* tests/cp/trailing-slash: New file.
* tests/cp/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add trailing-slash.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -27,6 +27,11 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- "mv -T --verbose --backup=t A B" now prints the " (backup: B.~1~)" suffix when A and B are directories as well as when they are not. + mv and "cp -r" no longer fail when invoked with two arguments + where the first one names a directory and the second name ends in + a slash and doesn't exist. E.g., "mv dir B/", for nonexistent B, + now succeeds, once more. This bug was introduced in coreutils-5.3.0. + * Major changes in release 6.1 (2006-08-19) [unstable] |