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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 16:20:40 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen AT cygnus DOT com>
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To: Stewart Greenhill <greenhil AT murdoch DOT edu DOT au>
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Subject: Re: Have rename() semantics changed?
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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
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Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company

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