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

[Klaus Weide]

On Tue, 20 Apr 1999 address@hidden wrote:
> 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.

I withdraw the "would be preferable"...

   Klaus