Re: mv problems ! 2.3.99pre4-1

From: Tim Walberg (tewalberg@mediaone.net)
Date: Mon Apr 03 2000 - 12:39:42 EST


On 04/03/2000 13:34 +0100, Tim Waugh wrote:
>> On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Peter Enderborg wrote:
>>
>> > mv gets the error message 'No such file or directory' when trying to
>> > rename "mv" the mountpoint (ext2)
>> > I hope no one see this as a feature ?! Or is it ?!
>>
>> What does 'UNIX' do? IMHO this behaviour is acceptable -- mount-points
>> are special in all sorts of ways.
>>
>> For interest's sake, 2.2 does the same thing.

If my memory serves, Solaris reports EBUSY (don't know what message
mount translates that to, but it's most likely not 'No such file or
directory').

                                tw

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