--- "Lars J. Aas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 07:46:08AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> : --- "Lars J. Aas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : > How about mv'ing itself out of the way (to configure.bak or something
> : > similar)?
> :
> : Can't do that either. A mv is a cp && rm.
>
I should have said "essentially the same as cp && rm". Obviously the workings
may sometimes be different.
> I thought it was a link() and an unlink(), but you're right - it's probably
Only if it is the same device. Look at the code for mv.c from fileutils.
> a cp+rm on systems without hard links (DOS++)...
>
Yep.
Earnie.
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