B20: mv deletes files on error (NT)
Anders Norlander
anorland@hem2.passagen.se
Mon Mar 29 08:25:00 GMT 1999
Chris Faylor wrote:
>
> I'm not 100% certain (and I can't check right now) but I think that
> this should not be a problem in recent snapshots. A net contributor
> supplied a patch to make "inode" generation case-insensitive. That
> should make mv capable of detecting this problem and disallowing it.
Wasn't this a problem on samba drives? Maybe that is the issue in
this case. What do you mean by "detecting this problem and disallowing
it"?
`mv foo Foo' is a perfectly legal command, case-sensitive file-system or
not.
Regards,
Anders
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