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From: donn@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Donn Terry)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: POSIX bashing (Was Re: Retaining file permissions)
Message-ID: <5980069@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 11 Mar 91 18:09:59 GMT
References: <3419@unisoft.UUCP>
Organization: HP Fort Collins, Co.
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>Sean Fagan writes about an implementation of rename():

1) There are similar degenerate cases in any standard you care to name;
   the phases "quality of implementation" and "suitability to purpose"
   come to mind.

2) Where were you for the last Wierdnix contest??

Donn Terry
Speaking only for myself.
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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;
>}

>-- 
>Sean Eric Fagan  | "I made the universe, but please don't blame me for it;
>sef@kithrup.COM  |  I had a bellyache at the time."
>-----------------+           -- The Turtle (Stephen King, _It_)
>Any opinions expressed are my own, and generally unpopular with others.
>----------