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From: tih@barsoom.nhh.no (Tom Ivar Helbekkmo)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: SCO Unix 386 3.2.0 rename() fails on 14 char file names!
Message-ID: <955@barsoom.nhh.no>
Date: 3 Jul 90 18:37:22 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Norwegian School of Economics
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Just discovered a bug in the rename() library function under SCO Unix
here...  If either of the file names passed as parameters is 14
characters in length, the call fails with ENAMETOOLONG.  Seems there's
a fence-post error in there...  :-)  To work around it, use

	unlink(target);
	link(source, target);
	unlink(source);

instead of

	rename(source, target);

and you'll be OK.

-tih
-- 
Tom Ivar Helbekkmo, NHH, Bergen, Norway.  Telephone: +47-5-959205
tih@barsoom.nhh.no, thelbekk@norunit.bitnet, edb_tom@debet.nhh.no