dircp and bind(1).
On Apr 15, 2011 10:39 PM, <smiley@zenzebra.mv.com> wrote:
> 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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