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

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

[mpartel (Martin Pärtel)]

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.

[ko1 (Koichi Sasada)]

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

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

[hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA)]

• Status changed from Open to Rejected

This issue is fixed by r46783.

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