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According to Eric Blake on 9/7/2009 11:12 AM:
> According to Eric Blake on 9/7/2009 10:30 AM:
>> Any objections to deleting the rename-dest-slash module? It performs a
>> subset of the rename module,
>
> Correction. As currently written, rename.m4 checks whether:
>
> rm -rf d1 d2
> mkdir d1
> rename("d1/","d2")
>
> Meanwhile, rename-dest-slash.m4 checks whether:
>
> rm -rf d1 d2
> mkdir d1
> rename("d1","d2/")
>
> fails
And POSIX 2008 is still awkward on rules for trailing slashes. I think
the intent is that a directory may be specified with a trailing slash, but
that a regular file must not (so, for example, the fact that Solaris 10
allows:
touch a
rename("a","b/")
to succeed if b exists as a regular file, but fails with ENOTDIR if b does
not exist, is a bug in Solaris). But I'd rather wait for the Austin group
ruling on my bug report:
https://www.opengroup.org/sophocles/show_mail.tpl?CALLER=index.tpl&source=L&listname=austin-group-l&id=12739
as well as delay the merging of these two modules until after coreutils
7.6 is released.
>
> I guess it's time for me to add a unit test.
Still true, although it's hard to know what to test until we are certain
what POSIX requires.
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake e...@byu.net
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