Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 12:30:57 +0100 From: Pietro Cerutti <gahr@gahr.ch> To: Wouter Oosterveld <wouter@fizzyflux.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rename and chmod (was: cp -p) Message-ID: <47AC3D71.4060409@gahr.ch> In-Reply-To: <b4950de90802080328w1ef8c2c8if87c93381fbef7a0@mail.gmail.com> References: <47AC2018.6010403@gahr.ch> <b4950de90802080328w1ef8c2c8if87c93381fbef7a0@mail.gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Wouter Oosterveld wrote: >> Now, from a logical point of view, why moving a file into a directory > doesn't fall into the "created into them" case? > > Because (if on the same filesystem) you don't create a new file. You > just link the file in the destination dir and unlink the file from the > source dir. Exactly. But from a /*logical*/ point of view, shouldn't this case be treated /*as if*/ the file was created inside the target directory? > > Regards, > > Wouter -- Pietro Cerutti PGP Public Key: http://gahr.ch/pgp [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (FreeBSD) iEYEAREKAAYFAkesPXUACgkQwMJqmJVx945SZACeJKvdj5qli+Af1bprKrELYvwJ xZAAoKSPDgfcyvmTLt6ls4JrvfeORcR9 =Aovw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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