Re: Solaris, mv and netmud.old (was RE: [UM1-coders] Object Store)

[J.P. K. <jp...@he...>]

> My understanding was that certain version of mv will unlink() the
> target if it exists, and other will creat(O_TRUNC) (or whatever
> the correct argument is).

My understanding is that mv will retain the same inode, which
in some situations is a desirable behaviour, and thus the
system will get as confused if you mv as if you catted over the top.

Certainly I had told Keith in the past to mv the old binary out of the
way rather than just copy over the top.

> Adrian.

Julian