[BusyBox 0004064]: fails to mv dangling symlink across mountpoints

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Sat Jul 12 11:21:17 UTC 2008


A NOTE has been added to this issue. 
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http://busybox.net/bugs/view.php?id=4064 
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Reported By:                bernhardf
Assigned To:                BusyBox
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Project:                    BusyBox
Issue ID:                   4064
Category:                   Standards Compliance
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   major
Priority:                   urgent
Status:                     assigned
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Date Submitted:             07-11-2008 13:37 PDT
Last Modified:              07-12-2008 04:21 PDT
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Summary:                    fails to mv dangling symlink across mountpoints
Description: 
initially reported here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=426145

rm -f nonono
ln -s nonono y
busybox mv y /boot/
mv: cannot rename 'y': No such file or directory

the target of mv has to be a different mountpoint.
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 vda - 07-12-08 04:21  
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Fix is attached, will be in 1.12.x 

Issue History 
Date Modified   Username       Field                    Change               
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07-11-08 13:37  bernhardf      New Issue                                    
07-11-08 13:37  bernhardf      Status                   new => assigned     
07-11-08 13:37  bernhardf      Assigned To               => BusyBox         
07-11-08 13:46  bernhardf      Summary                  fails to mv dangling
symling across mountpoints => fails to mv dangling symlink across mountpoints
07-12-08 04:21  vda            Note Added: 0009214                          
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