GNU bug report logs - #78509
Coreutils' mv and cp 9.5 do not work properly on old PPC Mac OS X 10.4.11, Tiger

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa <at> Web.DE>

Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 16:13:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa <at> Web.DE>
Cc: 78509 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#78509: Coreutils' mv and cp 9.5 do not work properly on old
 PPC Mac OS X 10.4.11, Tiger
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.
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