Subject: Re: bug#27986: 26.0.50; 'rename-file' can rename files without confirmation

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2017 15:38:47 -0700

On 08/19/2017 03:04 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
>
> Is there any (good) reason that glibc doesn't provide a wrapper for 
> it? It seems that this would be pretty trivial to do. 

On the glibc side there has been a concern that it support a good GNU 
libc interface that does not assume a Linux kernel, as opposed to merely 
being a thin wrapper around whatever system calls Linux happens to 
provide. I don't know what the specific objections to renameat2 are, though.