GNU bug report logs - #30907
mv return value.

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Jorgen Harmse <Jorgen.Harmse <at> samsclub.com>

Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 17:20:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #32 received at 30907 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jorgen Harmse <Jorgen.Harmse <at> samsclub.com>
To: Kamil Dudka <kdudka <at> redhat.com>, Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
Cc: "30907 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <30907 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>,
 Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>,
 "bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org" <bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#30907: mv return value.
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 14:14:39 +0000
Thank you. I don't see renameat2 on my system, but this should be good for systems that have it.

Regards,
Jorgen Harmse
 
Sam’s Club Technology
Phone 512.633.2226 
jorgen.harmse <at> samsclub.com
 
 
On 3/23/18, 08:55, "Kamil Dudka" <kdudka <at> redhat.com> wrote:

    On Friday, March 23, 2018 2:00:01 PM CET Eric Blake wrote:
    > I don't know if mv exposes RENAME_NOREPLACE semantics yet, but it should
    > be taught to do so, where such semantics are available.
    
    mv was recently patched to use renameat2(..., RENAME_NOREPLACE):
    
    http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=v8.29-9-g29baf25aa
    
    Kamil
    


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