From: "Zefram" <zefram@tao.co.uk>
To: phil@athenaeum.demon.co.uk (Phil Pennock)
Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: v3.1.4 Files/mv bug
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 18:46:52 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199810141746.SAA26773@diamond.tao.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199810141738.SAA02973@athenaeum.demon.co.uk> from "Phil Pennock" at Oct 14, 98 06:38:23 pm
Phil Pennock wrote:
>So, just how POSIX-compliant is zsh aiming to be? What does POSIX
>actually require, anyway?
POSIX does require the historical behaviour of mv. However, as this
mv can only be used by taking explicit action (loading/autoloading
the module), I consider POSIX conformance to be less of an issue than
it is for the shell itself. If someone wants to write a patch to add
the copy/remove fallback to the builtin mv, I don't have a problem with
putting it into the baseline; I just don't consider the current behaviour
to be broken.
> But, either the shell could do it
>correctly or if the link(2) fails with EXDEV then automatically use the
>one in the PATH.
Ugly. There are a number of nasty issues here.
>Alternatively, since they're both GPL'ed, just rip the code from the
>FSF's GNU shell-utils or wherever mv(1) normally lives ...
zsh is not GPLed, and it's written much more neatly than most GNU
programs anyway.
-zefram
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-10-14 17:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-10-13 23:04 Phil Pennock
1998-10-14 9:48 ` Zefram
1998-10-14 14:46 ` PATCH: v3.1.4 Files/mv bug is a feature Bart Schaefer
1998-10-14 15:07 ` v3.1.4 Files/mv bug Dan Nelson
1998-10-14 17:38 ` Phil Pennock
1998-10-14 17:46 ` Zefram [this message]
1998-10-14 18:05 ` Phil Pennock
1998-10-14 18:41 ` Bart Schaefer
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