Have rename() semantics changed?

Thu Jul 13 07:20:00 GMT 2000

Stewart Greenhill wrote:
>> Hi,
>> The latest cygwin seems not to allow open files to be renamed. This
> works under Unix. It is not normally allowed under Windows, but worked
> in previous versions of the cygwin environment.
>> Is this an official change, or could it be a bug?

I have backtracked the sources 'til June 1999 and I couldn't
find _any_ code in rename() which would allow that explicitly.
AFAIK, the only special case is unlink() which tries to delete
files later if they are currently locked to simulate U*X behaviour.
Corinna
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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Developer
Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company
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