On Tue 15 Feb 2011 16:35, Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke-l...@xs4all.nl> writes:

> From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <jann...@gnu.org>
>
> 2011-02-15  Jan Nieuwenhuizen  <jann...@gnu.org>
>
>       * libguile/filesys.c [MINGW32] (my_rename): Add implementation
>       that deletes target if it exists.  Fixes rename behaviour.

This patch has the obvious race condition.  Why does the `rename'
library routine not work on Win32?  The man page says

    CONFORMING TO
           4.3BSD, C89, C99, POSIX.1-2001.

so I am surprised about this behavior.

Andy
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