From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" Message-ID: <873d4r9d21.fsf@becket.becket.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii References: <87eloeax62.fsf@becket.becket.net>, <20011010104812.B2606@luchie-chowchows.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: [9fans] mv vs cp Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 09:10:20 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 05748696-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 davel@luchie-chowchows.demon.co.uk writes: > On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 08:49:41AM +0000, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > davel@luchie-chowchows.demon.co.uk writes: > > > > > Also, to be brutal for a minute, > > > why *do* people want to move directories around: > > > why not just put them in the right place to start with? > > > > Unlike people here, apparently, I sometimes make mistakes. > > So do I, and I expect to suffer for them, > not have kernel hacks put in place to make them easier to bodge around. Ah! The job of software is not to make users' lives easier. Not to provide them tools to be more productive. No--the job of the computer is to administer punishments for their errors. Are you really serious? There are reasons to have a feature, and reasons not to. But "we want to punish people for making mistakes" is never a reason not to, and it sounds like you have run out of steam when that's all you muster.