[TUHS] moving directories in svr2
    Bakul Shah 
    bakul at iitbombay.org
       
    Thu Dec 30 02:01:31 AEST 2021
    
    
  
On Dec 29, 2021, at 7:18 AM, Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:
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> Think about the UNIX FS and the link system call. How is mv implemented?   You link the file to the new directory and the unlink it from the old one.   But a directory file can not be in two directories at the same time as the .. link would fail.
Don’t see why linking a dir in two places is a problem. 
    
    
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