[1.7] rename/renameat error

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Mon Sep 7 19:21:00 GMT 2009


On Sep  7 09:48, Eric Blake wrote:
> POSIX states that rename must fail with EINVAL if either argument ends in
> '.' or '..' (after trailing slashes are stripped).  Cygwin 1.7 is
> detecting this situation (which is a step up from 1.5 which did the rename
> anyways), but sets errno to EBUSY instead of EINVAL.

Thanks for catching.  Feel free to fix the rename function accordingly.
This falls definitely under the trivial patch rule.


Corinna

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