From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
Message-Id: <9606301523.AA14217@clio.rice.edu>
Subject: Re: rename() problem in Win95 ?
To: k3040e4 AT c210 DOT edvz DOT uni-linz DOT ac DOT at (Oberhumer Markus)
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 10:23:50 -0600 (CDT)
Cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com (DJGPP developers)
In-Reply-To: <199606301311.PAA09407@c210.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at> from "Oberhumer Markus" at Jun 30, 96 03:11:50 pm
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> Everything works fine, and I've found this interresting
> code fragment in msdos.c. As I don't have Windows 95 I can't
> verify the claims herein, but maybe it proves useful as
> a patch for rename().

Applications must be aware of the file system limitations they are working
with.  I think this code belongs in vim and not in the libc.  Doing a
rename of foo.bar to foo.bar~ on a regular DOS system is looking for
trouble anyway and should be avoided in DOSy code.

Oh, BTW, a useful define I use in many apps is #define rename _rename,
if you know you won't be renaming directories.  Decreases the footprint a bit.