GNU bug report logs - #14628
mv: safeguard against renaming dir with open files

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: "S. Dara" <saif.dara <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 20:18:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #15 received at control <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
To: 14628 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14628: mv command (and suggesting a feature for it)
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 10:53:04 -0600

severity 14628 wishlist
retitle  14628 mv: safeguard against renaming dir with open files
close 14628
stop

(triaging old bugs)

On 15/06/13 05:35 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> 
> On 06/15/2013 09:02 PM, S. Dara wrote:
>>
>> With this email, I would like to suggest a feature for the mv command. I believe this command should contain a safeguard feature which will deny renaming a directory that contains files which are currently opened by the user.
> 
> While I see the issue, I think it's probably outside the remit
> of mv to make such checks.


With no further comments in 5 years, I'm closing this item.

-assaf
This bug report was last modified 6 years and 215 days ago.

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