Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 13:30:40 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: 9$$DJREN.$$T Rename bug?
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On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Peter Cassidy wrote:

> I have a DOS application that uses the djgpp libc libraries, and throws
> files around a bit (writing to temporary files and renaming them to the
> final name).  Occasionally (and seemingly at random) I end up with the file
> 9$$DJREN.$$T floating around.

Is this plain DOS or Windows?  If it's Windows, the temporary file's name 
should be 9$$djren$$.$$temp$$.  If it's plain DOS, and you don't have 
some kind of LFN TSR loaded, such temporary files should not be produced 
at all.

> So my question is: under what circumstances would this happen?  Is it my
> fault and I need to use the 'rename' call in a different way?  Or does it
> indicate a bug in the djgpp libraries?

It's some kind of bug.  Please try to find a sequence of actions that 
consistently causes such files to be left around.