From: anorland AT hem2 DOT passagen DOT se (Anders Norlander) Subject: incompatible rename in crtdll 30 Oct 1998 14:04:02 -0800 Message-ID: <3638DC9E.5D11EDEE.cygnus.gnu-win32@hem2.passagen.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Cc: colin AT fu DOT is DOT saga-u DOT ac DOT jp Hi, I have noticed that rename in crtdll does not behave as you would expect it to do on a unix system. If the new filename already exists the function will fail. I noticed this when porting patch to mingw32. Cygwin handles this correctly. To get around it you would have to do something like this: #define rename(f,t) _ming_rename