From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 12:42:22 -0400
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Message-ID: <a2f1ef66d606dbcfc2c8afc631c9e889@kw.quanstro.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAG3N4d_XzC19rud_S4WjLdKV9H28S0FtEW3AnHFatL+UqGAcAw@mail.gmail.c>
References: <CAG3N4d_daNzfAbW8cn5xvF3zJ7sx4gpjGpWpL2dL_3mXdNruzA@mail.gmail.c>
	<177b10c1bec88723506aca2c8e4c84c0@brasstown.quanstro.net>
	<CAG3N4d9NVTKqwH9Ho0LkfSqxgZAxsGpwN_tFW-4k6GaUFdrQpA@mail.gmail.c>
	<3a530d722f6d0427e02b7dbb11094baa@brasstown.quanstro.net>
	<CAG3N4d-aMWWawDBksttk5AG4wv44LPkmoQ9XF7TAUZ85a7ZGGw@mail.gmail.c>
	<b5ae7f9669866931bf2715341cc6a0ac@kw.quanstro.net>
	<CAG3N4d_XzC19rud_S4WjLdKV9H28S0FtEW3AnHFatL+UqGAcAw@mail.gmail.c>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Subject: Re: [9fans] APE rename: wstat for 'none'
Topicbox-Message-UUID: af1156ea-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025

> try 'ratrace -c auth/none cmd ...' while not being none
> and ignore everything preceding Exec "cmd".

nice trick.

>
> > as i understand it, your claim is that mv works as none but ape/rename
> > does not and this is because ape/rename uses wstat.
>
> both use wstat or copying; what's different is how they choose what to use.
> mv falls back to copying if wstat fails; ape/rename does not.

oh, i thought you were comparing system/library calls, not library function
vs program.  i don't understand that comparison.

- erik