Re: Bug#479764: shell builtin mv fails to move files across devices

[Phil Pennock <zsh-workers+phil.pennock@spodhuis.org>]

On 2008-05-07 at 23:30 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2008-05-06 13:55:23 -0700, Phil Pennock wrote:
> > Most people shouldn't need to use it.
> 
> I use it *by default* just because of the Linux kernel bug^Wlimitation
> concerning the argument list (I often exceed it). But perhaps I should
> write my own shell function as a wrapper to coreutils and use xargs or
> zargs when necessary.

Would it make more sense for your usage if Zsh used the new "features"
capabilities to resolve this?  Would this also help with the Debian
situation, in addition to documentation notes?

They were added by Peter after I sent a proposed patch renaming
zsh/stat's stat to zstat, with a stat deprecated backwards-compatible
name, since a stat(1) external command has come along in the years since
zsh's stat module was introduced with incompatible behaviour.

Peter just looked at the logical conclusion and put in a lot more work
to do the Right Thing.

For zsh/files it's not quite as simple as adding a z in front of the
names, since we already have zmv, but if there were alternate names
which would allow you to use Features to load only those names?

-Phil

PS: why single Linux out for doing what every Unix variant does?