Re: mv silently does nothing for hard links

> But I don't see why mv should be a thin wrapper around rename().  It
> already does some extra things like moving files between filesystems, so
> couldn't mv detect the case of 'different filenames, same file' and do
> something a bit more sensible?

After the coreutils-5.0 release, I'll look at this again.
I will probably end up writing yet another rename wrapper
and autoconf test to detect and work around this failure.

I've added it to the TODO list.