Re: `rename-file' with leading spaces in filename

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 10:47:16 +0100
> From: martin rudalics <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
> 
>  > Yes, it's a known bug in the alias generation algorithm.
> 
> Which means that when "foobar" and "foo bar" reside in one and the same
> directory and I save a buffer visiting "foobar", I can take for granted
> that my backup for "foo bar" is lost irrevocably.

Did you actually try that?  w32.c:sys_rename jumps through the hoops
to work around the Windows 9X bugs related to aliases.  Perhaps it
fails in this case, but it would be nice if you could step with a
debugger through sys_rename and tell where the logic there fails.