On 3/21/24 00:56, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 3/20/24 15:53, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
Yes, that's the expected behavior for this contrived case. Just as one
would get odd behavior if one did the same thing without --exchange.
There's another which is not consistent with/without --exchange:
$ src/mv -v a a
src/mv: 'a' and 'a' are the same file
$ src/mv -v --exchange a a
renamed 'a' -> 'a'
RENAME_EXCHANGE is allowed (but useless?) for 1 file.
BTW: shouldn't the -v diagnostic better say "exchanged 'a' <-> 'a'"
because that's what happened?
- not sure if exchange works well together with -f.
What problems do you see there?
it's up to the tests to proof that.
why does exchange not work to exchange a regular with a
directory file?
It works. I don't see a problem there.
$ touch a
$ mkdir d
$ ./mv -T --exchange a d
$ ls -ld a d
drwxr-xr-x. 2 eggert eggert 4096 Mar 20 16:52 a
-rw-r--r--. 1 eggert eggert 0 Mar 20 16:52 d
indeed, it works. It seems my test was wrong, sorry.
Finally, the test cases are very sparse:
Feel free to add some. :-)
Unfortunately, I cannot currently spend as much time as I'd love to.
It seems that -i is skipped:
$ src/mv -iv --exchange a b
renamed 'a' -> 'b'
As far as I know Padraig would like to do the next release very soon,
so I would recommend to not hurrying this one into it, and instead
ironing all out after the release.
Have a nice day,
Berny
