Subject: Re: bug#78509: Coreutils' mv and cp 9.5 do not work properly on old PPC Mac OS X 10.4.11, Tiger

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 24 May 2025 01:36:54 -0700

On 2025-05-24 00:51, Peter Dyballa wrote:
> You are saying that the GNUlib function target_directory_operand() is known to fail when the target of cp or mv is a file? So I do not need to debug further?

No, I'm saying that target_directory_operand is supposed to fail if it's 
given the name of a regular file. (It should succeed only on 
directories.) You're reporting that it succeeded, which means there's 
something wrong here.