On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 11:46:09AM +0000, John Levon wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 11:42:23AM +0000, Angus Leeming wrote:
>
> > Don't I remember something about "mv" not working between partitions. We have
> > to use "cp" and then "rm".
> >
> > I thought that this had been fixed though...
>
> if (::rename(from.c_str(), to.c_str()) == -1)
> if (lyx::copy(from, to)) {
> lyx::unlink(from);
>
> rename(2) makes no mention of cross-mount problems anyhoo
From the rename(2) man page:
ERRORS
EISDIR newpath is an existing directory, but oldpath is
not a directory.
EXDEV oldpath and newpath are not on the same filesystem.
The EXDEV error is what you are talking about...
---Kayvan
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