Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!think!rutgers!caip!atux01!uxrd1!thk From: thk@uxrd1.UUCP (Tom Kiermaier ) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: Are links as useful as they could be? Message-ID: <121@uxrd1.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Oct-86 09:08:58 EDT Article-I.D.: uxrd1.121 Posted: Mon Oct 6 09:08:58 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Oct-86 21:03:42 EDT References: <1209@mit-trillian.MIT.EDU> Organization: AT&T Communications, Piscataway NJ Lines: 2 The mv command on SysV does indeed implement renames as link() followed by unlink(). The rename() system call doesn't exist on SysV.