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Date: | Wed, 6 Jun 2001 18:50:20 +0300 (IDT) |
From: | Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> |
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To: | JT Williams <jeffw AT darwin DOT sfbr DOT org> |
cc: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com |
Subject: | Re: portable equivalent to djgpp `update' |
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On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, JT Williams wrote: > But, it seems that `update' and `move-if-change' are different > enough to be dangerous: > > update: copy src -> dest > > move-if-change: _move_ src -> dest > _remove_ src if src==dest (ouch!) If you really want the `update' behavior, you need a trivial change to move-if-change. In the cases where move-if-change is used, its operation isn't dangerous.
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