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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2006-05-11 08:55:04 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2006-05-11 08:55:04 +0000 |
| commit | 156459c2f5e368fdd2c55fc051caeb48fd995b4c (patch) | |
| tree | 0d79324b2c85df8bd82ca5a295aa1605adea020c /src | |
| parent | 8ebce3d9a5d171b2b67b342fa9d3672f419b14b7 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-156459c2f5e368fdd2c55fc051caeb48fd995b4c.tar.xz | |
mv -T DIR EMPTY_DIR no longer fails
(copy_internal): Don't manually prohibit a move where
the destination is an existing directory. Sometimes doing that is
valid. Let the rename system call enforce the rules. That is
allowed only when the source is a directory and the destination
directory (to be replaced) is empty. Reported by Eric Blake.
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/copy.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/src/copy.c b/src/copy.c index 645b90b46..a6f6ec54e 100644 --- a/src/copy.c +++ b/src/copy.c @@ -1157,14 +1157,6 @@ copy_internal (char const *src_name, char const *dst_name, if (x->move_mode) { - /* In move_mode, DEST may not be an existing directory. */ - if (S_ISDIR (dst_sb.st_mode) && x->backup_type == no_backups) - { - error (0, 0, _("cannot overwrite directory %s"), - quote (dst_name)); - return false; - } - /* Don't allow user to move a directory onto a non-directory. */ if (S_ISDIR (src_sb.st_mode) && !S_ISDIR (dst_sb.st_mode) && x->backup_type == no_backups) |