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- From: johnsonm@lars.acc-admin.stolaf.edu (Michael K. Johnson)
- Subject: Re: BUG of feature: cannot move `foo' accross file systems
- In-Reply-To: kankkune@klaava.Helsinki.FI's message of 3 Jan 93 20:55:23 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.212154.24266@news.stolaf.edu>
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- Organization: St. Olaf College; Northfield, MN USA
- References: <1992Dec31.172305.1930@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <1993Jan1.141633.1724@victrola.sea.wa.us> <1993Jan3.205523.23937@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 21:21:54 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan3.205523.23937@klaava.Helsinki.FI> kankkune@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Risto Kankkunen) writes:
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- >that's a feature, not a bug.
- >many *nix'es don't allow that.
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- OK, I can live with that, but is there any reason for this? I haven't
- checked the sources (yet), but I think disallowing just requires extra
- code with no benefits. Afterall, symlink is just a file containing the
- path name of the file it points to.
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- You just explained why it *doesn't* work. It is a FILE containing
- that name. Files simply don't move across filesystems very well.
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- michaelkjohnson
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