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Re: fix for rename function on Mingw, take 2
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Michael Haubenwallner |
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Re: fix for rename function on Mingw, take 2 |
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Wed, 08 Apr 2009 09:50:10 +0200 |
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 20:23 -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On the Windows platform, Microsoft documents the rename function
> as refusing to replace existing destination files. This is
> allowed by C89 (and C99) but it is not POSIX-compliant, and it
> can be quite surprising to programs that want to atomically
> replace files.
What about moving across mountpoints/filesystems?
Even it may just work now, shouldn't it be documented somewhere?
/haubi/