[plt-scheme] Cross device link?

On 3/8/07, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> 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.
>

You're right. :-) I had already wondered about the internals of mv but
never got the chance to get into it.

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

Yes, I'll be doing that! :-)
Thanks,

Paulo Matos

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