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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [1.7] rename/renameat error
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 19:21:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090907192046.GA12492@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AA52B5E.8060509@byu.net>

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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  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-07 19:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-07 15:48 Eric Blake
2009-09-07 19:21 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2009-09-08 22:56   ` Eric Blake
2009-09-09 16:37     ` Eric Blake
2009-09-09 17:43       ` Christopher Faylor
2009-09-21 10:46         ` Corinna Vinschen
2009-09-22 21:02       ` Eric Blake
2009-09-23  9:22         ` Corinna Vinschen
2009-09-23 14:01           ` Christopher Faylor

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