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- From: kankkune@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Risto Kankkunen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: BUG of feature: cannot move `foo' accross file systems
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.205523.23937@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 20:55:23 GMT
- References: <1992Dec31.172305.1930@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <1993Jan1.141633.1724@victrola.sea.wa.us>
- Organization: University of Helsinki, Department of Computer Science
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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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