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From: smiley@zenzebra.mv.com
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Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 02:36:05 +0000
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Subject: [9fans] Q: moving directories? hard links?
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Hello,

I've been about Plan 9... there are lots of goodies there under
/sys/doc.  However, I have a couple of lingering questions that don't
seem to be answered anywhere:

  Observation 1: There doesn't seem to be any provision for moving a
  directory from one directory into another directory; that is, moving
  it to a different directory on the same <type,device> file system.

  Observation 2: There doesn't seem to be any support for hard links.

My questions:

Are these features, in fact, unsupported?  Or did I overlook something?

If they're unsupported, why?  Were they simply overlooked?  Are there
compelling technical or theoretical reasons for not providing them?

Are there any proposals afoot to implement either of these features?  If
not, are there any workarounds (besides cp&&rm and bind, respectively)?

I've checked the docs under /sys/doc, the man pages, the 9fans archives,
and the googleweb, but I can't seem to find any explanation for these
two properties.  (The case for omitting symlinks, I think is obvious:
they make most file-related utilities 3x more complicated than they
would be otherwise.)

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