incompatible rename in crtdll
Earnie Boyd
earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
Fri Oct 30 22:54:00 GMT 1998
---Anders Norlander <anorland@hem2.passagen.se> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
Hi Anders,
> I have noticed that rename in crtdll does not behave as you would
> expect it to do on a unix system. If the new filename already
> exists the function will fail. I noticed this when porting
> patch to mingw32. Cygwin handles this correctly.
> To get around it you would have to do something like this:
>
> #define rename(f,t) _ming_rename
>
You may be interested in what I did with a mingw32 version of patch. You'll find a gziped differences attached.
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