From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23524 invoked from network); 6 May 2008 17:11:28 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4 (2008-01-01) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.4 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 6 May 2008 17:11:28 -0000 Received-SPF: none (ns1.primenet.com.au: domain at sunsite.dk does not designate permitted sender hosts) Received: (qmail 4136 invoked from network); 6 May 2008 17:11:22 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 6 May 2008 17:11:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 14805 invoked by alias); 6 May 2008 17:11:18 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 24952 Received: (qmail 5564 invoked from network); 6 May 2008 16:56:17 -0000 Received: from bifrost.dotsrc.org (130.225.254.106) by sunsite.dk with SMTP; 6 May 2008 16:56:17 -0000 Received: from clegg.madduck.net (clegg.madduck.net [82.197.162.59]) by bifrost.dotsrc.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2676880ED172 for ; Tue, 6 May 2008 18:56:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: from lapse.madduck.net (chiu.ifi.unizh.ch [130.60.75.74]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "lapse.madduck.net", Issuer "CAcert Class 3 Root" (verified OK)) by clegg.madduck.net (postfix) with ESMTP id D132AA803E; Tue, 6 May 2008 18:55:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: by lapse.madduck.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 43D813FD90; Tue, 6 May 2008 17:55:55 +0100 (IST) Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 17:55:55 +0100 From: martin f krafft To: Bart Schaefer Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk, 479764@bugs.debian.org Subject: Re: Bug#479764: shell builtin mv fails to move files across devices Message-ID: <20080506165555.GB17377@lapse.madduck.net> References: <20080506144208.GA15225@lapse.madduck.net> <20080506150303.GB31177@scru.org> <080506084541.ZM1350@torch.brasslantern.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="xgyAXRrhYN0wYx8y" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <080506084541.ZM1350@torch.brasslantern.com> X-Motto: Keep the good times rollin' X-OS: Debian GNU/Linux lenny/sid kernel 2.6.24-1+scoflowctrl.1-686 i686 X-Debbugs-No-Ack: please spare me Organization: The Debian project User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.92.1/7040/Tue May 6 03:52:15 2008 on clegg.madduck.net X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.91.2/7040/Tue May 6 03:52:15 2008 on bifrost X-Virus-Status: Clean --xgyAXRrhYN0wYx8y Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable also sprach Bart Schaefer [2008.05.06.1645 +010= 0]: > 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. >=20 > Also note that "cp" is (intentionally) NOT one of the commands > supplied by the zsh/files module, so changing mv means > implementing cp. What, if I may ask, is the purpose of zsh/files? --=20 .''`. martin f. krafft : :' : proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck - http://debiansystem.info `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems =20 you can't assign IP address 127.0.0.1 to the loopback adapter, because it is a reserved address for loopback devices. -- micro$oft windoze xp professional --xgyAXRrhYN0wYx8y Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="digital_signature_gpg.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature (see http://martin-krafft.net/gpg/) Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIII2bIgvIgzMMSnURAqDtAJ41iR6Ilk93iwswnMF8lnwmYtMbbwCfUtVT s44K6B9YiZHJJmc31yk2Whc= =VmWa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --xgyAXRrhYN0wYx8y--