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bug in 'mv'
- From: "Chris Ruffin" <c dot ruffin at ieee dot org>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 04:34:31 -0000
- Subject: bug in 'mv'
mv from fileutils 4.1 doesn't use a case-insensitive test to make sure that we aren't doing something stupid like:
$ mv A a
where A is a directory. This causes mv to go into infinite recursion trying to move A to a, because windows is case-insensitive.
Chris Ruffin
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