Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: Tony Clayton Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com, bug-fileutils@gnu.org Subject: Re: cygwin 1.5.3: "/bin/mv dir dir" results in recursive-loop copy In-Reply-To: <20031112161255.GS5171@e-smith.com> (Tony Clayton's message of "Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:12:55 -0500") References: <20031112161255.GS5171@e-smith.com> From: Jim Meyering Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:11:58 +0100 Message-ID: <85smkrqppd.fsf@pi.meyering.net> Lines: 27 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Tony Clayton wrote: > in cygwin 1.5.3, I got the following error after a moment: > mv: cannot create directory `src/src/src/src/src/src/src [...] /src': > Invalid argument mv (from any recent coreutils package) works fine in that case on unix systems. > I think it is the MAX_PATH=256 limitation that finally brings this to a > halt. Each of the subdirectories contains all the source files and a src > directory. > > Running "mv --version shows: > mv (fileutils) 4.1 > ... fileutils-4.1 is quite old. I suggest you use something newer STABLE ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.tar.gz ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.tar.bz2 (coreutils is the union of fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils) BETA ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.91.tar.gz ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.91.tar.bz2 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/