> From: André Warnier [mailto:a...@ice-sa.com] > Subject: Re: Can't move files using symbolic links (allowLinking=true)
> The perl documentation for rename() though, has this to say : > rename OLDNAME,NEWNAME > > perl itself being written in C, is usually pretty close to the C > library. But maybe the above is a bit dated. No, the description is perfectly valid - for the rename function. > What I am getting at is : what if, for reasons of efficiency > (but not to the benefit of portability obviously) the developer > of this C application of which the OP does not have the source, > used a rename() call in order to move a file from one directory > to the other, instead of a copy-and-delete sequence ? Quite possible; as noted earlier, there is no move() API. The C programmer has to understand the limitations of rename() and compensate for them where needed. One could probably run strace to find out just what the program is doing. - Chuck THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its attachments from all computers. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
