> > On Apr 28, 2004, at 11:48 AM, Mark Wheeler wrote: > > > Hi Ken, > > > > I switched that because it was suggested that writing files over > > system boundaries might be a problem. What is the difference between > > the two? It sounds like, from your comment, that they do very > > different things. > > Yeah - rename() moves the file, and copy() makes a copy of it. >
If we are going to get technical we might as well go further, rename() changes link information in the inode which is why it doesn't work across filesystem boundaries, copy() copies a file, then there is move() which moves a file, doing a rename if possible, failing that then it does a copy and unlink, etc. Which is why I suggested File::Copy it provides copy() and move(), assuming the docs got read then Mark could decide between his subject line "Copying files" and his code "rename" ... http://danconia.org
