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- From: uunet!Sun.COM!guy (Guy Harris)
-
- This may want to be forwarded to Shane, rather than posted; unfortunately,
- I don't remember his email address.
-
- [ He's ahby@bungia.mn.org or uunet!rutgers!umn-cs!bungia!ahby,
- but this looks like a useful correction of a technical detail
- (one I missed on review) that should be posted. -mod ]
-
- - Only the super-user shall be allowed to link or
- unlink directories (2.10.4, lines 938 - 939).
-
- Another useful option. A portable application may
- need to know whether it requires "approprite
- privileges" to move directories around.
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- No portable application needs "appropriate privileges" to move directories
- around; it can use "rename()". The correct way to move anything under a POSIX
- implementation is to use "rename()", not "link()" and "unlink()".
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- Volume-Number: Volume 13, Number 6
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