Re: coreutils-5.94 imminent

[Eric Blake]

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According to Jim Meyering on 2/9/2006 1:56 AM:
> I'm hoping to release coreutils-5.94 soon.  If anyone sees
> something on the trunk that they want but that's not yet
> in 5.94, please speak up now.  So far, my policy has been
> to apply only bug fixes.

Whatever happened to this thread:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2005-11/msg00285.html

The question was whether "mv a b/" failing when a is a directory and b
does not exist, which is a regression from 5.2.1, should be fixed in 5.94.
 The thread spans month boundaries, but never seemed to reach any solid
conclusions.  However, I am inclined to believe that rename("a", "b/") is
ambiguous of whether it should succeed in the same situation, and that "mv
a b/" should succeed if the underlying rename(2) can do so.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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