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Article #10564directory g+s vs. mv (was: Two bugs: sticky bit directory and ld -e)
From: Aled Morris
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1989 03:48
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1989 03:48
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>But what happens if you use mv
>to rename files without write protection in a directory with the sticky
>bit and write permissions? mv happily creates a new link for the file to
>be renamed, but can't remove the old link. So mv works essentially as ln.
I reported this to SunUK a couple of months ago (call #30701), but all I
got was a brush off, apparently from Sun US, to the effect that "its
behaviour is completely reasonable". Now I can understand _why_ it was
screwing up, what I was complaining about was that "mv" ought really to
obey the principle of least suprise. "Gee, it's screwed up my disk, thats
a suprise" :-)
Aled Morris
systems programmer
mail: awm@doc.ic.ac.uk | Department of Computing
uucp: ..!ukc!icdoc!awm | Imperial College
talk: 01-589-5111x5085 | 180 Queens Gate, London SW7 2BZ
[[ I reported it to hotline a couple days ago. The response I got was
"we'll look into it and see if it is really a problem." --wnl ]]
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: mcvax!gould.doc.imperial.ac.uk!awm@uunet.uu.net (Aled Morris) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: directory g+s vs. mv (was: Two bugs: sticky bit directory and ld -e) Message-ID: <AWM.89Jan19144057@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk> Date: 27 Jan 89 03:48:47 GMT References: <5761@etana.tut.fi> Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London Lines: 21 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: 19 Jan 89 14:40:57 GMT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 124, message 5 of 9