[BUG] rename("symlink", "regular_file") has weird results

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Thu Mar 9 15:32:00 GMT 2006


On Mar  8 22:36, Max Bowsher wrote:
> Suppose "foo.tmp" is a symlink, and "foo" is a regular file.
> 
> Calling rename("foo.tmp", "foo") results in the very bizarre situation
> where, as far as Cygwin is concerned, there are TWO files called "foo"
> within the same directory.

Should be fixed now in CVS.


Corinna

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