On Jan 3, 2008 12:32 AM, Nicolas Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Oof, I see this has been discussed since (and, actually, IIRC it was
> discussed a long time ago too).
>
> Anyways, IMO, this requires a new syscall or syscalls:
>
> xdevrename(2)
> xdevcopy(2)
>
> and then mv(1) can do:
>
> if (rename(old, new) != 0) {
> if (xdevrename(old, new) != 0) {
> /* do a cp(1) instead */
> return (do_cp(old, new));
> }
> return (0);
> }
> return (0);
>
> cp(1), and maybe ln(1), could do something similar using xdevcopy(2).
Could it be cleaner to do that within vn_renameat() instead? This
will save creating a new syscall and updating quite a number of
utilities.
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