From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] mv vs cp 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 07 Oct 2001 08:29:00 +0200."
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From: Quinn Dunkan <quinn@hork.ugcs.caltech.edu>
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Date: Sat,  6 Oct 2001 23:42:15 -0700
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> Am I being utterly obtuse, or does it really make sense to duplicate
> then delete files when moving them to another directory?

mv does try to rename (uses dirwstat, I think), but you can only rename to the
same directory, check mv.c.  There was a discussion a while back about how
hard cross directory renames are.