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- From: vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan)
- Subject: Re: BUG of feature: cannot move `foo' accross file systems
- References: <1992Dec31.172305.1930@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Organization: Vince and Suzie's Underpowered PC
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 14:16:33 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.141633.1724@victrola.sea.wa.us>
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- kankkune@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Risto Kankkunen) writes:
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- >Just noticed that mv refuses to move symlinks accross file systems. With
- >SunOS this isn't a problem, and I think POSIX would mind that, too.
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- that's a feature, not a bug.
- many *nix'es don't allow that.
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