From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Russ Cox" To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] VGA Hell, what else?! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20001208071758.546D8199EA@mail.cse.psu.edu> Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 02:17:56 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 36bd0472-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 reasons, but what's the alternative? What do the bell labs people do when they find themselves confronted with 't/huge-dir' that needs to be './huge-dir'? The only times I find myself doing this is when I have untarred an archive that had unexpected names in it. Since I look at the names before untarring, this is very rare. There isn't the Unix plethora of places in which source or binaries are kept, so it's not common that entire trees move from one place to another. From the sound of it, a cross-directory rename not implemented for good reasons, but what's the alternative? The good reasons are good enough: how much more complicated would 9P get in order to support this? How much more complicated would the kernel get? Namec is hard enough to get right. Since it is so rarely needed, it's not worth the effort. Put things in the right place to begin with. Russ