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Re: RENAME with different disk units
- To: Tim Prince <tprince at computer dot org>
- Subject: Re: RENAME with different disk units
- From: Toon Moene <toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 21:32:41 +0200
- CC: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at delorie dot com>, heviaop at ssdfe dot com dot ar,gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: Moene Computational Physics, Maartensdijk, The Netherlands
- References: <200007201524.LAA09836@indy.delorie.com> <002601bff262$8116dfe0$0100000a@TIMYX18EWDT6RQ>
Tim Prince wrote:
> Actually, libf2c/libU77/rename_.c is a part of the gcc distribution, not
> even part of the libf2c, so it is maintained by us. Whether it should
> work across drives, and to what extent this is target dependent, I don't
> know. I would investigate, but I'm not able to spend time on this the
> next 2 weeks. On first look, it depends on the C library rename()
> function, so then it would be an issue for the maintainers of the run
> time library including the instance of that function for the target in
> question.
Yep, I think this was what Eli wanted to point out: The (libc) rename
function that the libf2c/libU77/rename_.c uses can't rename over volumes
(or whatever file systems are called under DOS).
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