[issue28490] inappropriate OS.Error "Invalid cross-device link"

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[issue28490] inappropriate OS.Error "Invalid cross-device link"

Steve Newcomb added the comment: Oops. My bad. There was a symlink in one of those paths. The message is valid. -- resolution: -> not a bug status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___

[issue28490] inappropriate OS.Error "Invalid cross-device link"

New submission from Steve Newcomb: os.rename() raises OSError with a misleading message saying "cross-device" when no cross-device activity is involved. Here, running on Ubuntu 16.04.1 using and ext4 filesystem, both filepaths are in the same filesystem, and the error is evidently due to the