From: johnsonm@lars.acc-admin.stolaf.edu (Michael K. Johnson) Subject: Re: BUG of feature: cannot move `foo' accross file systems Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 21:21:54 GMT
In article <1993Jan3.205523.23937@klaava.Helsinki.FI> kankkune@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Risto Kankkunen) writes:
>that's a feature, not a bug.
>many *nix'es don't allow that.
OK, I can live with that, but is there any reason for this? I haven't
checked the sources (yet), but I think disallowing just requires extra
code with no benefits. Afterall, symlink is just a file containing the
path name of the file it points to.
You just explained why it *doesn't* work. It is a FILE containing
that name. Files simply don't move across filesystems very well.
michaelkjohnson