bernie@metapro.DIALix.oz.au (Bernd Felsche) (01/13/91)
In <5187@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes: >>(Try "mv" on a directory, I'd like to see if that works - It should... under >>SYSVR3.x it doesn't!) This did not work correctly and would cause a PANIC on "demand", with the BSD derived SunOS I was working with a year back. Naturally, this was discovered during a demo. It did not like to move directories across mount point, when the pathname referred to was a symbolic link to the destination. Anybody want to try it on the 3000UX?! >Given that S5R4 has a BSD-style "rename()" call, one would hope it >works; that presumes that AT&T fixed "mv" not to waste its time with >"/usr/lib/mv_dir" and just use "rename" to move stuff (including >directories). I only just found out about mv_dir a couple of days ago on a SVR3.2 system, when I had to umount /usr filesystem... YUCK! And I only wanted to rename the directory. -- ______________________________Bernd_Felsche______________________________ Metapro Systems, 328 Albany Highway, Victoria Park Western Australia 6100 Phone: +61 9 362 9355 Fax: +61 9 472 3337 bernie@metapro.DIALix.oz.au