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Subject: Re: [9fans] mv vs cp
From: "rob pike" <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Mon,  8 Oct 2001 10:46:44 -0400
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> We accept that the "trees" (you're perfectly right about directed
> graphs) are rooted at the same fileserver, I think.

Do you?  A mv-tree thingy would require the server to know the name
space of the client to get this right.  The server doesn't know that
one of the files in the client's tree is somewhere else.  I honestly
don't see a reasonable way to do this right, even if we don't worry
about race conditions (and we do).

-rob