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Re: [1.7] rename/renameat error
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 21:20:47 +0200
- Subject: Re: [1.7] rename/renameat error
- References: <4AA52B5E.8060509@byu.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Sep 7 09:48, Eric Blake wrote:
> POSIX states that rename must fail with EINVAL if either argument ends in
> '.' or '..' (after trailing slashes are stripped). Cygwin 1.7 is
> detecting this situation (which is a step up from 1.5 which did the rename
> anyways), but sets errno to EBUSY instead of EINVAL.
Thanks for catching. Feel free to fix the rename function accordingly.
This falls definitely under the trivial patch rule.
Corinna
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