On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 01:53:03PM +0200, Peter Simons wrote:
> What happens is that the configure script creates these files in /tmp
> and mv(1)s them to the target location -- my home directory in this
> case.
>
> In general using mv here seems to be dangerous because many older
> systems do not allow mv'ing files from one file system to another one;
> often /tmp is on a different file system than the home directories. In
> this case the configure script would fail entirely.
Cross-filesystem mv's of *files* has always been allowed, ever
since 6th Edition (mid-1970s) at latest. Moving directories is
another question, but one that doesn't apply here.
> [On FreeBSD 4.3]:
> | configure: creating ./config.status
> | config.status: creating xds.h
> | mv: xds.h: set owner/group (was: 10003/0): Operation not permitted
> [...]
>
Now, these annoying complaints from FreeBSD's mv are also another
question, and may in themselves be reason to move to cp+rm...
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