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> From: "Tim Van Holder" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
> Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 16:42:15 +0100
> 
> > I've tried running "mv a b" with success. Doesn't mv use rename()?
> No; IIRC, it is basically a cp followed by an rm, code-wise.

Actually, `mv' tries to call `rename' first, and only if that fails,
it falls back on copy/remove.

> Below is a simple program that lowercases all file and directory
> names in the current dir. Does this work on WinME too?

As I wrote elsewhere, the problems which were reported on c.o.m.d. had
to do with the target of rename already existing.

>   strcpy (lowername, name);
>   strlwr (lowername);
>   if (strcmp (name, lowername) != 0) {
>     printf ("%s -> %s\n", name, lowername);
>     if (rename (name, lowername) != 0) {

This is not supposed to work with stock v2.03.  I only committed
yesterday the changes that make this work, so before that, even the
CVS version won't DTRT.