Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 17:14:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch> To: Mark.OLear@Colorado.EDU, wosch, freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: bin/1565 Message-ID: <199609270014.RAA28974@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Synopsis: Moving a file to it's link completely removes file State-Changed-From-To: open-analyzed State-Changed-By: wosch State-Changed-When: Thu Sep 26 17:13:11 PDT 1996 State-Changed-Why: This is a general cross-device link problem. mv(1) does not check the target if the source and the target are on different disks. mv(1) should unlink the target before copying if the target is a symbolic link. Bruce?
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