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bug#27986: 26.0.50; 'rename-file' can rename files without
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Richard Stallman |
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bug#27986: 26.0.50; 'rename-file' can rename files without |
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Sat, 19 Aug 2017 17:33:56 -0400 |
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I haven't followed the discussion, but I'm told there is a proposal to
make this change:
> Btw, in case it isn't clear: the issue at hand is an incompatible
> change to rename-file (and probably also other functions, like
> copy-file). Where previously (rename-file A B) with B a directory
> will move A into B/A, under the proposed change it will only do so if
> B actually ended in a slash; otherwise it will move A to B, deleting B
> if it exists. The incompatibility will manifest itself if some old
> code expects to get B/A, but instead gets either an error (if B is a
> non-empty directory) or B silently removed (if it is empty).
Assuming this applies only when directory B is empty, so that this
won't delete non-empty directories, then I don't have any objection.
I would object to deleting non-empty directories here.
Another option that might be good is to make this operation always
signal an error in the case where B is a directory and does not end
with a slash.
I don't have an opinion about which of those two is better.
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Dr Richard Stallman
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- bug#27986: 26.0.50; 'rename-file' can rename files without confirmation, (continued)
- bug#27986: 26.0.50; 'rename-file' can rename files without confirmation, Ken Brown, 2017/08/16
- bug#27986: 26.0.50; 'rename-file' can rename files without confirmation, Ken Brown, 2017/08/19
- bug#27986: 26.0.50; 'rename-file' can rename files without confirmation, Paul Eggert, 2017/08/19
- bug#27986: 26.0.50; 'rename-file' can rename files without confirmation, Ken Brown, 2017/08/19
- bug#27986: 26.0.50; 'rename-file' can rename files without confirmation, Paul Eggert, 2017/08/19
bug#27986: 26.0.50; 'rename-file' can rename files without confirmation, Andy Moreton, 2017/08/15
bug#27986: 26.0.50; 'rename-file' can rename files without,
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