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- From: ig25@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas Koenig)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: BUG of feature: cannot move `foo' accross file systems
- Message-ID: <1ibt1sINNp7r@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 11:56:44 GMT
- References: <1993Jan3.205523.23937@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <1993Jan3.214155.25253@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <1993Jan5.100758.21535@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
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- In article <1993Jan5.100758.21535@klaava.Helsinki.FI> kankkune@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Risto Kankkunen) writes:
- >So, would it be The Right Thing to modify GNU mv?
-
- The best thing would be to tell GNU mv's maintainer about the problem,
- maybe even send him (or her) a patch. Chances are it'll be included
- in the new version.
-
- >Does POSIX say anything about this?
-
- A strictly POSIX.1 conforming program does not use symlinks; there is no
- POSIX - specified way of telling wether a file is a symlink or not.
- --
- Thomas Koenig, ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de, ig25@dkauni2.bitnet
- The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic
- diagram.
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