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Re: mv silently does nothing for hard links
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Jim Meyering |
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Re: mv silently does nothing for hard links |
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Wed, 02 Apr 2003 20:45:55 +0200 |
> But I don't see why mv should be a thin wrapper around rename(). It
> already does some extra things like moving files between filesystems, so
> couldn't mv detect the case of 'different filenames, same file' and do
> something a bit more sensible?
After the coreutils-5.0 release, I'll look at this again.
I will probably end up writing yet another rename wrapper
and autoconf test to detect and work around this failure.
I've added it to the TODO list.