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From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb+usenet@becket.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] mv vs cp
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 08:50:15 +0000
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viro@math.psu.edu (Alexander Viro) writes:

> BTW, while we are at it, check what does GNU find(1) (which is the
> default on Hurd, IIRC) do when somebody moves a directory while
> find is walking through its subdirectories.  And think about the
> implications.  What was that about correctness and completeness, again?

find does not necessarily traverse every file on an active partition.  

But that has nothing to do with the moving of directories?  The same
thing happens with the moving of single files too.