From: Vince Skahan (vince@victrola.sea.wa.us)
Date: 01/01/93 

From: vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan)
Subject: Re: BUG of feature: cannot move `foo' accross file systems
Date: 1 Jan 1993 14:16:33 GMT

kankkune@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Risto Kankkunen) writes:

>Just noticed that mv refuses to move symlinks accross file systems. With
>SunOS this isn't a problem, and I think POSIX would mind that, too.

that's a feature, not a bug.
many *nix'es don't allow that. 

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