mv and "cp -r" no longer fail when invoked with two arguments

where the first one names a directory and the second name ends in
a slash and doesn't exist.  E.g., "mv dir B/", for nonexistent B,
now succeeds, once more. This reverts part of the 2004-06-27
change for 5.3.0.
* NEWS: Say the above.
* src/mv.c (target_directory_operand): Don't require (here)
that the target operand "look like" a directory.  This change
pushes the test down to the rename syscall level, where a
"mv dir existing-non-dir/" will mistakenly succeed on older systems
that ignore trailing slashes in the rename destination argument.
* src/cp.c (target_directory_operand): Likewise, but for cp.
* tests/mv/trailing-slash: Exercise the above fixes.
* tests/cp/trailing-slash: New file.
* tests/cp/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add trailing-slash.

ChangeLog

@@ -1,5 +1,21 @@
 2006-09-08  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>
 
+	mv and "cp -r" no longer fail when invoked with two arguments
+	where the first one names a directory and the second name ends in
+	a slash and doesn't exist.  E.g., "mv dir B/", for nonexistent B,
+	now succeeds, once more. This reverts part of the 2004-06-27
+	change for 5.3.0.
+	* NEWS: Say the above.
+	* src/mv.c (target_directory_operand): Don't require (here)
+	that the target operand "look like" a directory.  This change
+	pushes the test down to the rename syscall level, where a
+	"mv dir existing-non-dir/" will mistakenly succeed on older systems
+	that ignore trailing slashes in the rename destination argument.
+	* src/cp.c (target_directory_operand): Likewise, but for cp.
+	* tests/mv/trailing-slash: Exercise the above fixes.
+	* tests/cp/trailing-slash: New file.
+	* tests/cp/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add trailing-slash.
+
 	* bootstrap: Use the previously unused variable, $src,
 	to avoid repeating "$GNULIB_SRCDIR/$file".
 

NEWS

@@ -27,6 +27,11 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   "mv -T --verbose --backup=t A B" now prints the " (backup: B.~1~)"
   suffix when A and B are directories as well as when they are not.
 
+  mv and "cp -r" no longer fail when invoked with two arguments
+  where the first one names a directory and the second name ends in
+  a slash and doesn't exist.  E.g., "mv dir B/", for nonexistent B,
+  now succeeds, once more.  This bug was introduced in coreutils-5.3.0.
+
 
 * Major changes in release 6.1 (2006-08-19) [unstable]
 

src/cp.c

@@ -518,9 +518,6 @@ make_dir_parents_private (char const *const_dir, size_t src_offset,
 static bool
 target_directory_operand (char const *file, struct stat *st, bool *new_dst)
 {
-  char const *b = last_component (file);
-  size_t blen = strlen (b);
-  bool looks_like_a_dir = (blen == 0 || ISSLASH (b[blen - 1]));
   int err = (stat (file, st) == 0 ? 0 : errno);
   bool is_a_dir = !err && S_ISDIR (st->st_mode);
   if (err)
@@ -529,8 +526,6 @@ target_directory_operand (char const *file, struct stat *st, bool *new_dst)
 	error (EXIT_FAILURE, err, _("accessing %s"), quote (file));
       *new_dst = true;
     }
-  if (is_a_dir < looks_like_a_dir)
-    error (EXIT_FAILURE, err, _("target %s is not a directory"), quote (file));
   return is_a_dir;
 }
 

src/mv.c

@@ -147,16 +147,11 @@ cp_option_init (struct cp_options *x)
 static bool
 target_directory_operand (char const *file)
 {
-  char const *b = last_component (file);
-  size_t blen = strlen (b);
-  bool looks_like_a_dir = (blen == 0 || ISSLASH (b[blen - 1]));
   struct stat st;
   int err = (stat (file, &st) == 0 ? 0 : errno);
   bool is_a_dir = !err && S_ISDIR (st.st_mode);
   if (err && err != ENOENT)
     error (EXIT_FAILURE, err, _("accessing %s"), quote (file));
-  if (is_a_dir < looks_like_a_dir)
-    error (EXIT_FAILURE, err, _("target %s is not a directory"), quote (file));
   return is_a_dir;
 }
 
@@ -258,7 +253,6 @@ movefile (char *source, char *dest, bool dest_is_dir,
      function that ignores a trailing slash.  I believe the Linux
      rename semantics are POSIX and susv2 compliant.  */
 
-  strip_trailing_slashes (dest);
   if (remove_trailing_slashes)
     strip_trailing_slashes (source);
 

tests/cp/Makefile.am

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ TESTS = \
   same-file cp-mv-backup symlink-slash slink-2-slink fail-perm dir-slash \
   perm cp-HL special-bits link dir-rm-dest cp-parents deref-slink \
   dir-vs-file into-self
-EXTRA_DIST = $(TESTS)
+EXTRA_DIST = $(TESTS) trailing-slash
 TESTS_ENVIRONMENT = \
   MAKE=$(MAKE) \
   CONFIG_HEADER=$(CONFIG_HEADER) \

tests/cp/trailing-slash

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# this is just a place-holder.
+# For trailing-slash-related tests, see ../mv/trailing-slash.

tests/mv/trailing-slash

@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 # On some operating systems, e.g. SunOS-4.1.1_U1 on sun3x,
 # rename() doesn't accept trailing slashes.
+# Also, ensure that "mv dir non-exist-dir/" works.
+# Also, ensure that "cp dir non-exist-dir/" works.
 
-# Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 2004, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -37,7 +39,7 @@ cd $tmp || framework_failure=1
 mkdir foo || framework_failure=1
 
 if test $framework_failure = 1; then
-  echo 'failure in testing framework'
+  echo 'failure in testing framework' 1>&2
   exit 1
 fi
 
@@ -45,4 +47,31 @@ fail=0
 
 mv foo/ bar || fail=1
 
+# mv and cp would misbehave for coreutils versions [5.3.0..5.97], 6.0 and 6.1
+for cmd in mv 'cp -r'; do
+  for opt in '' -T -u; do
+    rm -rf d e || framework_failure=1
+    mkdir d    || framework_failure=1
+    if test $framework_failure = 1; then
+      echo 'failure in testing framework'
+      (exit 1); exit 1
+    fi
+
+    $cmd $opt d e/ || fail=1
+    if test "$cmd" = mv; then
+      test -d d && fail=1
+    else
+      test -d d || fail=1
+    fi
+    test -d e || fail=1
+  done
+done
+
+# We would like the erroneous-looking "mv any non-dir/" to fail,
+# but with the current implementation, it depends on how the
+# underlying rename syscall handles the trailing slash.
+# It does fail, as desired, on recent Linux and Solaris systems.
+#touch a a2
+#mv a a2/ && fail=1
+
 (exit $fail); exit $fail