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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | bug#27986: 26.0.50; 'rename-file' can rename files without confirmation |
| Date: | Sat, 19 Aug 2017 15:38:47 -0700 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 |
On 08/19/2017 03:04 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
Is there any (good) reason that glibc doesn't provide a wrapper for it? It seems that this would be pretty trivial to do.
On the glibc side there has been a concern that it support a good GNU libc interface that does not assume a Linux kernel, as opposed to merely being a thin wrapper around whatever system calls Linux happens to provide. I don't know what the specific objections to renameat2 are, though.
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