Re: Have rename() semantics changed?

[Stewart Greenhill <greenhil at murdoch dot edu dot au>]

> At 12:23 PM 7/13/2000, Chris Faylor wrote:
> >On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 05:15:06PM +0100, Fifer, Eric wrote:
> > >
> > >Stewart Greenhill wrote:
> > >> The latest cygwin seems not to allow open files to be renamed. This
> > >> works under Unix. It is not normally allowed under Windows, but worked
> > >> in previous versions of the cygwin environment.
> > >> 
> > >> Is this an official change, or could it be a bug?
> > >
> > >I compared strace's on b20.1 and 1.1.2 and the shared argument to
> > >CreateFileA has changed.  FILE_SHARE_DELETE was dropped from
> > >host_dependent.shared in dcrt0.cc (host_dependent_constants::init).
> > >This was the comment at the time:
> > >
> > >  Sat Mar 18 01:32:04 2000  Christopher Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
> > >
> > >        * dcrt0.cc (host_dependent_constants::init): Eliminate DELETE flag
> > >        from shared constant.
> > >
> > >I put it back and your test program works again.  Perhaps Chris can
> > >shed some light on the reason for the change.
> >
> >Can you still unlink opened files on Windows 9x, Windows NT, and W2K
> >with this change?  I believe that is why I removed this.  Either that
> >or it prevented files from being opened.  Sorry that I don't remember.
> >
> >If the above still works, then I'll put this back and comment this
> >so we won't have to guess next time.

> According to the MSDN, FILE_SHARE_DELETE is a NT/W2K thingy.  That implies 
> that this functionality is only available there.  One would hope that 
> enabling it doesn't cause 9x to misbehave but who knows.  I suppose the
> constant could be conditionally compiled in if need be...

Folks,

Thanks for looking into this problem. I hope that this can be fixed for
the next cygwin release. In the mean time, it looks like I probably have
to step back to B20.1. 

I should have mentioned that I was having this problem with Win NT 4. I
haven't tried it under any other version of Windows.

Cheers,
  Stewart

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