From @MARTIMM

With Rakudo version 2017.04.3-66-g7648793 built on MoarVM version
2017.04-44-gf0db882
implementing Perl 6.c. on a system (uname -a) Linux h03-fedora
4.10.11-100.fc24.x86_64 #​1 SMP Tue Apr 18 17​:25​:04 UTC 2017 x86_64
x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I see the following problem

Moving a file where destination is the same as its source, two things
can happen a) program hangs or b) file is deleted. I would expect an
X​::IO​::Move exception with a proper message.

Example.​: 'abc.txt'.IO.move('abc.txt');

Regards,

Marcel

From @zoffixznet

On Tue, 02 May 2017 03​:30​:44 -0700, mt1957@​gmail.com wrote​:

With Rakudo version 2017.04.3-66-g7648793 built on MoarVM version
2017.04-44-gf0db882
implementing Perl 6.c. on a system (uname -a) Linux h03-fedora
4.10.11-100.fc24.x86_64 #​1 SMP Tue Apr 18 17​:25​:04 UTC 2017 x86_64
x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I see the following problem

Moving a file where destination is the same as its source, two things
can happen a) program hangs or b) file is deleted. I would expect an
X​::IO​::Move exception with a proper message.

Example.​: 'abc.txt'.IO.move('abc.txt');

Regards,

Marcel

Thank you for the report. This is now fixed.

Fix​: rakudo/rakudo@08a8075f91
Tests​: Raku/roast@4fdb8504cd
Docs​: Raku/doc@eca21ff851

-- IO grant

The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

@zoffixznet - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'

From @MARTIMM

Thanks very much
Marcel