Re: lynx-dev bookmarks and remove()/COPY_PATH/MV_PATH (was: Win32 docs patch)

[pg]

In a recent note, Klaus Weide said:

> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 08:09:12 -0500 (CDT)
> 
> Maybe, although using rename() for situations where it does work would
> be preferable, even for Unix.  [Maybe there are some situations involving
> symlinks where rename would be bad.]
> 
Not only symlinks, but even more, hard links can give problems here.
Some applications refuse to manipulate multiply-linked files for
this reason.

And rename may cause undesired changes to file permissions.  I
submitted a patch regarding this quite a while back, which was
partially integrated.

And there's the possibility that in a captive account the
user may have authority to update a file but not to change the
directory containing it.

-- gil