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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: How does 'mv' rename directories?
Message-ID: <1989Sep14.190353.8607@twwells.com>
Date: 14 Sep 89 19:03:53 GMT
References: <544@isi.UUCP>
Organization: None, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
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In article <544@isi.UUCP> mike@isi.UUCP (Mike Maloney) writes:
: But on Microport, Xenix, and Sun Unix 4.0, /bin/mv is -rwxr-xr-x and is
: owned by 'bin'.   How is 'mv' able to rename directories on a properly
: working system?

On my Microport, it calls /usr/lib/mv_dir to do the dirty work.

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