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Re: B20: mv deletes files on error (NT)
- To: cygwin users <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
- Subject: Re: B20: mv deletes files on error (NT)
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 15:15:16 -0800 (PST)
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
--- "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall@rfk.com> wrote:
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> One person's feature is another's bug! I guess now I understand what the
> goal of making this change was. I have to say, for the number of times that
> hard links are used (especially in Win 9x), I can't say that I think the
> change is for the better. Still, I have no problem with adding functionality
> to cygwin (in general or in this case specifically) so long as it doesn't
> remove functionality. I think if we need to make sure we can use hard links,
> we need to be able to do this without sacrificing something that is
> functionally useful. At the very least, if nothing else can be found, we
> need a switch, even though I hate this idea in general. Mind you, I'm not
> against adding the ability to make use of NTFS hard links but why do we need
> to support this at the expense of existing functionality? I think this
> change needs to be revisited.
--8<--
It's easy enough to modify the code for mv.c. I know this (moving from one CASE
to the other case) works on NT but how about 9x?
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