Re: Proposed addition to File::Copy: move

Re: Proposed addition to File::Copy: move

In article <1996Dec11.184718.1613163@hmivax>, bailey@genetics.upenn.edu (Charles Bailey) writes:
> It's been mentioned a couple times that a file renaming function with
> semantics similar to the Unix "mv" command (rename if possible, else
> copy) would be a nice addition to File::Copy.  Here's a patch; what
> do people think of it?  (It also includes changes to make File::Copy
> 'strict' and '-w' clean.)

Of course, seconds after I post the patch, I find a case where rename()
returns ENODEV instead of EXDEV for a cross-device copy.  Appended is
a patch which allows this; if the target device really doesn't exist,
copy() will prompylt fail with the same error.

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