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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Cc: 479764@bugs.debian.org, martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org>
Subject: Re: Bug#479764: shell builtin mv fails to move files across devices
Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 08:45:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <080506084541.ZM1350@torch.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080506150303.GB31177@scru.org>

On May 6,  4:03pm, Clint Adams wrote:
}
} Anyone up for changing this in a future version?
} 
}     Note  that  this  mv  will not move files across devices.  Historical
}     versions of mv, when actual renaming is impossible, fall back on copying
}     and removing files; if this behaviour is desired, use cp and rm manually.
}     This  may  change  in  a future version.

I'd rather we didn't.  rename(2) is atomic, but there's no reasonable way
to make cp+rm be so, and I think it's better if the user is forced to be
aware of the issue.

Also note that "cp" is (intentionally) NOT one of the commands supplied
by the zsh/files module, so changing mv means implementing cp.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-06 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20080506144208.GA15225@lapse.madduck.net>
2008-05-06 15:03 ` Clint Adams
2008-05-06 15:45   ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2008-05-06 16:55     ` martin f krafft
2008-05-06 20:52       ` Peter Stephenson
2008-05-06 20:55       ` Phil Pennock
2008-05-07 21:30         ` Vincent Lefevre
2008-05-07 21:47           ` Phil Pennock
2008-05-07 22:50             ` Vincent Lefevre
2008-05-07 23:03               ` martin f krafft
2008-05-08  3:23                 ` Vincent Lefevre
2008-05-08  9:34                   ` Stephane Chazelas
2008-05-07 22:06           ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-05-07 22:57             ` Vincent Lefevre
2008-05-06 18:52   ` Stephane Chazelas

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