[issue21876] os.rename(src, dst) does nothing when src and dst files are hard-linked

Aaron Swan added the comment: At any rate, it is a bit of a nuisance that files remain present when the intent was to move them. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21876

[issue21876] os.rename(src, dst) does nothing when src and dst files are hard-linked

New submission from Aaron Swan: On Linux Red Hat os.rename(src,dst) does nothing when src and dst files are hard-linked. It seems like the expected behavior would be the removal of the src file. This would be in keeping with the documentation that states: On Unix, if dst exists and is a file

[issue21876] os.rename(src, dst) does nothing when src and dst files are hard-linked

Aaron Swan added the comment: Although using the mv command *does* remove the src file on red hat linux, I can accept that the POSIX requirement that the source *must* be removed might not apply if source is the same as the destination file. It would be nice if the behavior was consistent