Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 22:19:43 +0300 (MSK) From: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (aka Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage) <ache@astral.msk.su> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, wollman@lcs.mit.edu, wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/mv mv.1 mv.c Message-ID: <AJFrCAn0F8@ache.dialup.ru> In-Reply-To: <199602191828.FAA10270@godzilla.zeta.org.au>; from Bruce Evans at Tue, 20 Feb 1996 05:28:29 %2B1100 References: <199602191828.FAA10270@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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In message <199602191828.FAA10270@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Bruce Evans
writes:
>>> $ touch a b;mv -fi a b
>>> $
>>...which violates the standard. Since the `i' flag is given last, it
>>is the one which must be obeyed.
>That's right. FreeBSD's mv has always violated the standard. Wolfram
>fixed it, but the changes were backed out so it's broken again.
Wolfram, can you restore your POSIX-conformant changes? Nobody
means back out _all_ changes, only suspicious ones.
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