Aaron Swan added the comment:
At any rate, it is a bit of a nuisance that files remain present when the
intent was to move them.
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Aaron Swan added the comment:
Although using the mv command *does* remove the src file on red hat linux, I
can accept that the POSIX requirement that the source *must* be removed might
not apply if source is the same as the destination file.
It would be nice if the behavior was consistent
New submission from Aaron Swan:
On Linux Red Hat os.rename(src,dst) does nothing when src and dst files are
hard-linked.
It seems like the expected behavior would be the removal of the src file. This
would be in keeping with the documentation that states: "On Unix, if dst exists
and
