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rename-dest-slash: merge into rename module Tested that NetBSD workaround still passes unit test. * modules/rename-dest-slash (Status): Mark obsolete. (Depends-on): Add rename. (Files): Let rename do it all. * m4/rename.m4 (gl_FUNC_RENAME): Also test for NetBSD bugs, subsuming the test from gl_FUNC_RENAME_TRAILING_DEST_SLASH... * m4/rename-dest-slash.m4: ...so this file can be deleted. * lib/rename-dest-slash.c (rpl_rename_dest_slash): Delete. * lib/rename.c (rpl_rename): Update comments. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
author Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
date Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:18:13 -0600
parents 724dd32f13f7
children bb32464985d7
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--- a/lib/rename.c
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@@ -228,8 +228,10 @@
      already covered that situation.  But if there is any problem with
      a trailing slash on an existing source or destination, as in
      Solaris 9, or if a directory can overwrite a symlink, as on
-     Cygwin 1.5, then we must strip the offending slash and check that
-     we have not encountered a symlink instead of a directory.
+     Cygwin 1.5, or if directories cannot be created with trailing
+     slash, as on NetBSD 1.6, then we must strip the offending slash
+     and check that we have not encountered a symlink instead of a
+     directory.
 
      Stripping a trailing slash interferes with POSIX semantics, where
      rename behavior on a symlink with a trailing slash operates on