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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.

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov        : And I rest so composedly,  /Now, in my bed,
ache@astral.msk.su       : That any beholder  /Might fancy me dead -
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