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- From: djm@eng.umd.edu (David J. MacKenzie)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: BUG of feature: cannot move `foo' accross file systems
- Message-ID: <DJM.93Jan5151115@frob.eng.umd.edu>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 20:11:15 GMT
- References: <1993Jan1.141633.1724@victrola.sea.wa.us>
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- Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland
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- In-Reply-To: kankkune@klaava.Helsinki.FI's message of Tue, 5 Jan 1993 10:07:58 GMT
-
- > So, would it be The Right Thing to modify GNU mv?
-
- Yeah, it's just a deficiency in GNU mv. POSIX.2 says that mv should
- basically do "cp -R" and remove the source files. POSIX requires mv
- to move whole directory trees across filesystems, not just symlinks!
- To do that, I want to make the guts of GNU cp into a module that both
- cp and mv can call. But that's a nontrivial amount of work that's
- never gotten important enough for me to do.
-