NetBSD Problem Report #2629

From gnats  Mon Jul 15 12:29:44 1996
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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 12:20:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: explorer@flame.org
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Subject: "mv" fails on MSDOS filesystem when destination exists
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>Number:         2629
>Category:       port-i386
>Synopsis:       "mv" fails on MSDOS filesystem when destination exists
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    gnats-admin
>State:          closed
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Jul 15 16:35:02 +0000 1996
>Closed-Date:    Mon Jul 15 19:12:08 +0000 1996
>Last-Modified:  Wed Aug 07 22:17:29 +0000 2002
>Originator:     Michael Graff
>Release:        15-Jul-1996
>Organization:
cygnus.com: Cygnus Support
>Environment:

System: NetBSD lenin.cygnus.com 1.2A NetBSD 1.2A (LENIN) #0: Wed Jul 10 14:35:39 EDT 1996 explorer@zhaneel.flame.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/LENIN i386


>Description:
Moving a filename on an MSDOS filesystem fails when the destinition
exists.
>How-To-Repeat:
	% touch foo
	% touch bar
	% mv foo bar
	mv: rename foo to bar: File exists

>Fix:
Unknown.  I just put unlink() just before I call rename() in my C code.
This is clearly a hack.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: ws 
State-Changed-When: Mon Jul 15 15:12:08 EDT 1996 
State-Changed-Why:  
Fixed 
>Unformatted:

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