mkdir foo
touch foo/file.txt
mv foo bar
The file dissapears. I can confirm that report. Furthermore, because I
am a nimnul and had to try it, I can report a few other things I
noticed under 2.1.8x. When I tried the above and did a cd to bar, I got
a file listing of the directory bar was from; i.e. /dos was my vfat
partition. ls of /dos showed the presence of bar. cd bar ; ls showed
the file listing for /dos. pwd showed /dos/bar. cd to bar again and I
got the same file listing and pwd showed /dos/bar/bar. I could do that,
apparently endlessly, giving a pwd which would show:
/dos/bar/bar/bar/bar/bar/bar/bar/bar. I would get the initial file
listing when doing an ls. Doing an rm -rf bar from /dos/bar/bar/bar/bar
blew away my /dos partition. It was no great loss I suppose, since it
was a win95 partition but it sure made me feel foolish for doing it. I
only have 2.1.86 and 2.1.84 for development, and both exhibited the same
behaviour. 2.0.33 acted as it should have.
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