[3026] in Release_Engineering
Re: Should take mv binary from ultrix 4.3
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Calvin Clark)
Mon Jun 21 11:14:46 1993
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1993 11:13:23 -0400
From: Calvin Clark <ckclark@MIT.EDU>
To: epeisach@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: rel-eng@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[3025] in Release_Engineering"
If you are not going for ultrix4.3, then I suggest you take mv from the
distribution. It is supposed to prevent losing files when going over
quota... (say mv from /tmp to afs, go over quota, lose part of the file
and rm the original).
Someone should of course test it...
Ezra
If you take mv, at least take cp and tar, too. Although they don't
remove files, they do something just as bad: they exit with status 0 and
print no errors even when the close() fails and the file is not
written. This could fool users into thinking that the operation was
successful, and that it is safe to delete the original file if they want.
See [10167] in bugs.
-Calvin
