From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <8662qej52i.fsf@cmarib.ramside> References: <8662qej52i.fsf@cmarib.ramside> Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 22:40:43 -0400 Message-ID: From: Jacob Todd To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0015175cd058c59a2e04a10015da Subject: Re: [9fans] Q: moving directories? hard links? Topicbox-Message-UUID: d0592586-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --0015175cd058c59a2e04a10015da Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 dircp and bind(1). On Apr 15, 2011 10:39 PM, 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 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.) > > -- > +---------------------------------------------------------------+ > |E-Mail: smiley@zenzebra.mv.com PGP key ID: BC549F8B| > |Fingerprint: 9329 DB4A 30F5 6EDA D2BA 3489 DAB7 555A BC54 9F8B| > +---------------------------------------------------------------+ > --0015175cd058c59a2e04a10015da Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

dircp and bind(1).

On Apr 15, 2011 10:39 PM, <smiley@zenzebra.mv.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been about Plan 9... ther= e are lots of goodies there under
> /sys/doc. However, I have a couple of lingering questions that don= 9;t
> seem to be answered anywhere:
>
> Observation 1:= There doesn't seem to be any provision for moving a
> director= y from one directory into another directory; that is, moving
> it to a different directory on the same <type,device> file sys= tem.
>
> Observation 2: There doesn't seem to be any sup= port for hard links.
>
> My questions:
>
> Are th= ese 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 pr= oviding them?
>
> Are there any proposals afoot to implement e= ither of these features? If
> not, are there any workarounds (besides cp&&rm and bind, respe= ctively)?
>
> I've checked the docs under /sys/doc, the ma= n pages, the 9fans archives,
> and the googleweb, but I can't see= m to find any explanation for these
> two properties. (The case for omitting symlinks, I think is obvious:<= br>> they make most file-related utilities 3x more complicated than they=
> would be otherwise.)
>
> --
> +---------------= ------------------------------------------------+
> |E-Mail: smiley@zenzebra.mv.= com PGP key ID: BC549F8B|
> |Fingerprint: 9329 DB4A 3= 0F5 6EDA D2BA 3489 DAB7 555A BC54 9F8B|
> +-------------------------= --------------------------------------+
>
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