awm@uunet.uu.net (Aled Morris) (01/27/89)
>But what happens if you use mv >to rename files without write protection in a directory with the sticky >bit and write permissions? mv happily creates a new link for the file to >be renamed, but can't remove the old link. So mv works essentially as ln. I reported this to SunUK a couple of months ago (call #30701), but all I got was a brush off, apparently from Sun US, to the effect that "its behaviour is completely reasonable". Now I can understand _why_ it was screwing up, what I was complaining about was that "mv" ought really to obey the principle of least suprise. "Gee, it's screwed up my disk, thats a suprise" :-) Aled Morris systems programmer mail: awm@doc.ic.ac.uk | Department of Computing uucp: ..!ukc!icdoc!awm | Imperial College talk: 01-589-5111x5085 | 180 Queens Gate, London SW7 2BZ [[ I reported it to hotline a couple days ago. The response I got was "we'll look into it and see if it is really a problem." --wnl ]]