directory g+s vs. mv (was: Two bugs: sticky bit directory and ld -e)
Aled Morris
mcvax!gould.doc.imperial.ac.uk!awm at uunet.uu.net
Fri Jan 27 13:48:47 AEST 1989
>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 at doc.ic.ac.uk | Department of Computing
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[[ 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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