Issue 0062: Can the rename function alway return a failure?

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Authors: David J. Hendricksen, X3 Secretariat (USA)
Date: 1993-08-19
Submitted against: C90
Status: Closed
Converted from: dr.htm, dr_062.html

If the only way to effectuate the renaming of a file on a given system is to copy the contents of the file, does an implementation conform to the C Standard by always returning a failure from the rename function? Footnote 113 would seem to imply this.

Comment from WG14 on 1997-09-23:

Response

Yes, subclause 7.9.4.2 permits the rename function to fail if it must copy the file contents, among other reasons.