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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: POSIX bashing (Was Re: Retaining file permissions)
Keywords: chmod, sed, awk... and good old *cat*!
Message-ID: <1991Mar08.224707.7330@kithrup.COM>
Date: 8 Mar 91 22:47:07 GMT
References: <21795@yunexus.YorkU.CA> <3419@unisoft.UUCP> <6499@auspex.auspex.com>
Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
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In article <6499@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>One can think so only if one ignores the presence of, say, "mkdir()",
>"rmdir()", and "rename()", or a BSD-flavored signal mechanism in POSIX.

I hereby place, into the public domain, the following POSIX-compliant
rename():

#include <unistd.h>
#include <errno.h>

int
rename(from, to)
char *from, *to; {
	if (access (from, 0) == -1)
		return -1;
	errno = EBUSY;
	return -1;
}

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