Michael Haubenwallner <michael.haubenwall...@salomon.at> writes: > On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 20:23 -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: >> On the Windows platform, Microsoft documents the rename function >> as refusing to replace existing destination files. This is >> allowed by C89 (and C99) but it is not POSIX-compliant, and it >> can be quite surprising to programs that want to atomically >> replace files. > > What about moving across mountpoints/filesystems? > Even it may just work now, shouldn't it be documented somewhere?
The flags that I specified to MoveFileEx should not, as I understand it, allow renaming files across mount points. As far as I'm concerned, that is just fine, because POSIX allows failure in that case. -- "Implementation details are beyond the scope of the Java virtual machine specification. One should not assume that every virtual machine implementation contains a giant squid." --"Mr. Bunny's Big Cup o' Java"
