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Re: cygwin 1.5.3: "/bin/mv dir dir" results in recursive-loop copy
- From: Jim Meyering <jim at meyering dot net>
- To: Tony Clayton <apc at e-smith dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com, bug-fileutils at gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:11:58 +0100
- Subject: Re: cygwin 1.5.3: "/bin/mv dir dir" results in recursive-loop copy
- References: <20031112161255.GS5171@e-smith.com>
Tony Clayton <apc@e-smith.com> wrote:
> in cygwin 1.5.3, I got the following error after a moment:
> mv: cannot create directory `src/src/src/src/src/src/src [...] /src':
> Invalid argument
mv (from any recent coreutils package)
works fine in that case on unix systems.
> I think it is the MAX_PATH=256 limitation that finally brings this to a
> halt. Each of the subdirectories contains all the source files and a src
> directory.
>
> Running "mv --version shows:
> mv (fileutils) 4.1
> ...
fileutils-4.1 is quite old.
I suggest you use something newer
STABLE
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.tar.bz2
(coreutils is the union of fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils)
BETA
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.91.tar.gz
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.91.tar.bz2
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