[7509] in Athena Bugs
decmips 7.2R: afs vs. rename(2)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John T Kohl)
Thu May 2 13:09:45 1991
Date: Thu, 2 May 91 13:09:32 EDT
From: John T Kohl <jtkohl@MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
System name: quicksilver
Type and version: KN01 7.2R
Display type: PM-MONO
What were you trying to do?
move some files around
What's wrong:
I got the wrong error code.
in /tmp (on UFS):
[{1}quicksilver:/tmp]
% mkdir frob
c[{1}quicksilver:/tmp]
% cd frob
[{1}quicksilver:/tmp/frob]
% touch a b c
[{1}quicksilver:/tmp/frob]
% mkdir quux
[{1}quicksilver:/tmp/frob]
% mv * quux
mv: quux: rename: Invalid argument
Exit 1 mv * quux
[{1}quicksilver:/tmp/frob]
% ls
quux
[{1}quicksilver:/tmp/frob]
%
=== and in my homedir:
[{1}quicksilver:~]
% mkdir frob
[{1}quicksilver:~]
% cd frob
[{1}quicksilver:~/frob]
% touch a b c
[{1}quicksilver:~/frob]
% mkdir quux
[{1}quicksilver:~/frob]
% mv * quux
mv: quux/quux: rename: Too many levels of symbolic links
Exit 1 mv * quux
[{1}quicksilver:~/frob]
% ls
quux
[{1}quicksilver:~/frob]
%
What should have happened:
the rename(2) man page specifies these cases for EINVAL and
ELOOP:
[EINVAL] The from is a parent directory of to, or an
attempt is made to rename ``.'' or ``..''.
[ELOOP] Too many symbolic links were encountered in
translating either pathname.
clearly EINVAL is the appropriate code for both cases.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
rename(2)
