New rename(2) function
Earnie Boyd
earnie@users.sourceforge.net
Wed Aug 8 13:45:00 GMT 2007
Quoting Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>:
> Reparse
> points are more like symbolic links - that is, if you have directory a,
> and reparse point b pointing to a, what happens if you rename a to c -
> does b now contain the contents in c, or is b now dangling?
Accessing the junction (what you called "reparse point") when the
parent directory is renamed gives "No such file or directory". If the
parent directory returns the junction is happy and displays the
directory data.
Earnie
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