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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 19:42:16 -0500
From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
To: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Cc: Corinna Vinschen <corinna DOT vinschen AT cityweb DOT de>,
        David Dagon <david DOT dagon AT mindspring DOT com>, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: B20: mv deletes files on error (NT)
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In-Reply-To: <19990329191539.A4753@cygnus.com>; from Chris Faylor on Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 07:15:39PM -0500

On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 07:15:39PM -0500, Chris Faylor wrote:
>Fwiw, Corinna is right here but because of "hard links".  This comes down
				^
				not

Sorry about that.

>to the question should "Foo" have the same inode as "foo".  The answer
>is "Yes."
>
>What that means is that when 'mv' checks for the existence of the target
>file it finds that 1) that it exists and 2) that it is the same file.
>Since mv refuses to move a file to itself, the only feasible change is
>to 'mv'.
>
>-chris

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