RE: [MiNT] MiNTLib 0.52.3b

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

> From: Frank Naumann [mailto:fnaumann@prinz-atm.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De]
> Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 1:08 PM
> To: Julian Reschke
> Cc: mint@fishpool.com
> Subject: RE: [MiNT] MiNTLib 0.52.3b
>
>
> Hi Julian!
>
> > > U: is a real filesystem, the unifs. Frename() work as expected.
> >
> > Yes, but you can't move an entry from the root of U:\ into one of the
> > filesystems mounted on U:.
>
> As you said this is moving and not renaming! Moving across filesystems is
> another thing.

As it was said before, moving and renaming is the same thing in POSIX speak.

> > > > Besides, as mentioned before, moving mounted
> > > > filesystems away from U: will break existing code.
> > >
> > > In what way? I see no reason why this will affect anything.
> >
> > If a filesystem is not mounted on U:\, it will become unknown to these
> > programs.
>
> Which 'normal' programs are interested how many different filesystem do
> you have?

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