RE: [MiNT] MiNTLib 0.52.3b

["Julian Reschke" <reschke@muenster.de>]

> From: owner-mint@fishpool.com [mailto:owner-mint@fishpool.com]On Behalf
> Of Jo-Even.Skarstein@gjensidige.no
> Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 1:24 PM
> To: mint@fishpool.com
> Subject: RE: [MiNT] MiNTLib 0.52.3b
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Martin-Eric Racine [SMTP:q-funk@pp.fishpool.fi]
> > Sent:	Friday, August 06, 1999 11:03 AM
> > To:	Jo-Even.Skarstein@gjensidige.no
> > Cc:	mint@fishpool.com
> > Subject:	RE: [MiNT] MiNTLib 0.52.3b
> >
> > There is already one for Rename, but then it means one has to
> > reboot every time there is a change in the mounting scheme.
> >
> You can only rename mounted filesystems, not move them. But I
> can't see any
> good reason why this can be done only at boot-time, u:\ is a
> filesystem too
> so it's only natural that it support rename. TOS has been able to move
> directories with Frename() since 1.04 (IIRC), if this was supported by U:
> you could easily move mountpoints with the desktop if you want to...

Frename works only within a filesystem, and technically we are talking about
the root of U: only. Besides, as mentioned before, moving mounted
filesystems away from U: will break existing code.