Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!its63b!aiva!alex
From: alex@aiva.ed.ac.uk (Alex Zbyslaw)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Rename bug?
Message-ID: <467@aiva.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 25 May 88 13:51:32 GMT
References: <9312@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: alex@eusip.ed.ac.uk (Alex Zbyslaw)
Organization: CSTR, University of Edinburgh
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In article <9312@eddie.MIT.EDU> nathan@eddie.MIT.EDU (Nathan Glasser) writes:
>>
>On my vax running 4.3bsd, apparently calling the rename(2) function
>with the same filename for both arguments causes the function to
>remove the file, and return 0 indicating success.
>This is definitely contrary to the statement of the man page which
>says that an instance of the file is guaranteed to exist, even
>if the system crashes.

RENAME(2)           UNIX Programmer's Manual            RENAME(2)
[...]
     Rename causes the link named from to be renamed as to.  If
     to exists, then it is first removed.

Need I point out the importance of the second sentence?

--Alex
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