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diff --git a/gnulib b/gnulib deleted file mode 160000 -Subproject 443bc5ffcf7429e557f4a371b0661abe98ddbc1 diff --git a/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/renameat.texi b/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/renameat.texi new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1a67c3b --- /dev/null +++ b/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/renameat.texi @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +@node renameat +@section @code{renameat} +@findex renameat + +POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/renameat.html} + +Gnulib module: renameat + +Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: +@itemize +@item +This function does not reject trailing slashes on non-directories on +some platforms, as in @code{renameat(fd,"file",fd,"new/")}: +Solaris 11 2010-11. +@item +This function ignores trailing slashes on symlinks on some platforms, +such that @code{renameat(fd,"link/",fd,"new")} corrupts @file{link}: +Solaris 9. +@item +This function is declared in @code{<unistd.h>} instead of @code{<stdio.h>} +on some platforms: +Solaris 11 2010-11. +@item +This function is missing on some platforms: +glibc 2.3.6, MacOS X 10.5, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 3.8, Minix 3.1.8, +AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 8, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw, MSVC 9, +Interix 3.5, BeOS. +But the replacement function is not safe to be used in libraries and is not multithread-safe. +@end itemize + +Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: +@itemize +@item +POSIX requires that @code{renameat(fd,"symlink-to-dir/",fd,"dir2")} rename +@file{dir} and leave @file{symlink-to-dir} dangling; likewise, it +requires that @code{renameat(fd,"dir",fd,"dangling/")} rename @file{dir} so +that @file{dangling} is no longer a dangling symlink. This behavior +is counter-intuitive, so on some systems, @code{renameat} fails with +@code{ENOTDIR} if either argument is a symlink with a trailing slash: +glibc, OpenBSD, Cygwin 1.7. +@item +After renaming a non-empty directory over an existing empty directory, +the old directory name is still visible through the @code{stat} function +for 30 seconds after the rename, on NFS file systems, on some platforms: +Linux 2.6.18. +@item +This function will not rename a source that is currently opened +by any process: +mingw, MSVC 9. +@end itemize |