[plt-scheme] Cross device link?

On Mar  8, Richard Cobbe wrote:
> 
> I tried it on my desktop and discovered that the error is coming
> from the rename system call (q.v.).  This is consistent with the
> documented behavior of rename: src and destination must be in the
> same filesystem.

Right -- and the reason `mv' works is that it's doing something
different when the destination is on a different filesystem.  You can
try using `mv' on a big file or directory and see that it's never
taking any time on a local move vs moving to a different FS.  You can
also try to use `mv -v' and see that after a move to a different FS it
says that the original file is removed.

In other words -- to get the `mv' behavior you'll need to catch this
error and use copy+delete instead.

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