From: Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre@debian.org>
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2026 12:20:52 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: tests: mv: check broken symlink cross-filesystem move
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tests: mv: check broken symlink cross-filesystem move

Identified here:
<https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/8586>

* tests/mv/mv-special-2.sh: Add the check.
---

diff --git a/tests/mv/mv-special-2.sh b/tests/mv/mv-special-2.sh
index f77e323234..36ebcb427d 100755
--- a/tests/mv/mv-special-2.sh
+++ b/tests/mv/mv-special-2.sh
@@ -59,6 +59,12 @@ mv --verbose blah xdev &&
 returns_ 1 test -L blah &&
 test -L xdev/blah || fail=1
 
+# Test moving a broken symlink to another file system
+ln -nsf nonexistent broken_symlink || framework_failure_
+mv --verbose broken_symlink xdev &&
+returns_ 1 test -L broken_symlink &&
+test -L xdev/broken_symlink || fail=1
+
 if python -c "import socket as s; s.socket(s.AF_UNIX).bind('test.sock')" &&
    test -S 'test.sock'; then
   mv --verbose test.sock xdev &&