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23.2; "Renaming: permission denied" file-error in Windows

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From: LynX <_LynX <at> bk.ru>
To: 10284 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10284: "Renaming: permission denied" file-error in Windows
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:53:39 +0200

Dear Eli,

Thank you for your response.

I just want to double check that I understood you right.

> This first removes the target, and only then compares the device
> numbers.  Wouldn't it be better to do it the other way around, at
> least when the target is a directory?  That way, the target is left
> intact if the caller doesn't want to copy over the target, and also
> the filesystem is left in the same state as on Posix hosts in this
> case, i.e. the contract of `rename' is preserved on all systems.

You mean that before setting errno to EXDEV we also need to check that 
target is a directory (since files are moved correctly)?

Regards,
LX

25.12.2011 11:40, Eli Zaretskii пишет:
>> Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2011 09:33:34 +0200
>> From: LynX<_LynX <at> bk.ru>
>> Cc: eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel <at> gnu.org
>>
>> Dear Eli,
>>
>> I've opened a bug report here:
>>
>> 10284: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=10284
>>
>> Here is the patch for this issue (it is done for the latest source
>> package emacs-23.3b.tar.bz2):
>
> I've redirected this discussion to the bug tracker,
> 10284 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.
>
> Please respond there, not here.
>
>

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