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From: blm@6sigma.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: How does 'mv' rename directories?
Message-ID: <303@6sigma.UUCP>
Date: 15 Sep 89 19:03:47 GMT
References: <544@isi.UUCP>
Reply-To: blm@6sigma.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
Organization: Six Sigma CASE, Inc.
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In article <544@isi.UUCP> mike@isi.UUCP (Mike Maloney) writes:
|I was recently trying to figure out why the 'mv' command on a Microport 
|System V box would refused to rename directories.

I don't have Microport, but I do have a System V box, and directory moving
is implemented by /usr/lib/mv_dir, which has permissions -r-sr-xr-x and
is owned by root.  mv uses mv_dir when renaming directories.
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