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FileUtils.mv fails to move symlink between filesystems

Bug #7707: FileUtils.mv fails to move symlink between filesystems

Added by mpartel (Martin Pärtel) almost 13 years ago. Updated about 11 years ago.

Status:
Rejected
Assignee:
nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)
Target version:
2.6
ruby -v:
ruby 1.9.3p362 (2012-12-25 revision 38607) [x86_64-linux]
Backport:
[ruby-core:51473]

Description

FileUtils.mv sometimes fails with a "Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - /path/to/symlink" when attempting to move a directory containing a symlink between filesystems. This may be because it moves the destination file before the symlink and then fails to move a "broken" symlink. Using the shell's "mv" instead works reliably.

A small test script is attached.

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test.rb (627 Bytes) test.rb Test script (requires bindfs and linux but easy enough to modify) mpartel (Martin Pärtel), 01/17/2013 04:05 AM

Updated by ko1 (Koichi Sasada) over 12 years ago Actions
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 #1 [ruby-core:52407]

  • Assignee set to nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)
  • Target version changed from 1.9.3 to 2.6

Updated by Anonymous over 11 years ago Actions
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 #2 [ruby-core:63640]

In Homebrew, we have code that works around this by shelling out to mv when necessary. It would be nice to have this fixed.

Updated by hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA) about 11 years ago Actions
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 #3 [ruby-core:64330]

  • Status changed from Open to Rejected

This issue is fixed by r46783.

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