Subject: Re: bug#65599: mv and cp give a pointless warning when moving/copying a directory

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2023 19:52:59 -0700

On 2023-09-01 16:12, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Well, you asked me to try it on / but / is an ext4 FS, not a CIFS FS
> on my system. Should I try it also on a directory inside the CIFS mount?

Yes please. If chmod also does not work coreutils might need more 
workarounds.