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From: Linus Benedict Torvalds <torvalds@...>
Subject: Re: Linix: where is /usr/bin/mvdir
Date: Monday, January 20, 1992 - 7:01 pm

In article <1992Jan20.041714.25208@keps.kodak.com> bob@snuffy.dracut.ma.us writes:

mvdir needs kernel resources that aren't there yet - it would have been
my next project after the linked lists, but once again I'm hoping for
VFS, and I don't want to touch the fs too much before that arrives. The
reason the rename system call isn't implemented yet is that there are a
couple of problems with it: it isn't as straightforward as you'd
imagine. Race conditions, inclusion checking etc..

It will befinitely be in 0.13 or 14 - if you remind me. It's not /that/
difficult, just needs a little thought. In the meantime, you might fake
it with "cp +recursive" and "rm -rf". Be careful with that though..

                Linus
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