Module Name: src
Committed By: dholland
Date: Fri Feb 14 22:50:38 UTC 2025
Modified Files:
src/lib/libc/sys: rename.2
Log Message:
rename.2: clarify behavior of overlapping renames
It came up today that on case-insensitive filesystems, rename("FOO",
"foo") unlinks the file. That's obviously not what we want, so it's a
bug. In the course of the ensuing discussion it developed that the
description in the man page was at least vague and possibly vaguely
wrong. This commit fixes that.
Bump date.
To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.33 -r1.34 src/lib/libc/sys/rename.2
Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
copyright notices on the relevant files.
Modified files:
Index: src/lib/libc/sys/rename.2
diff -u src/lib/libc/sys/rename.2:1.33 src/lib/libc/sys/rename.2:1.34
--- src/lib/libc/sys/rename.2:1.33 Tue Jan 27 10:11:20 2015
+++ src/lib/libc/sys/rename.2 Fri Feb 14 22:50:38 2025
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: rename.2,v 1.33 2015/01/27 10:11:20 wiz Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: rename.2,v 1.34 2025/02/14 22:50:38 dholland Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
.\"
.\" @(#)rename.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
.\"
-.Dd July 28, 2013
+.Dd February 14, 2025
.Dt RENAME 2
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ If both
.Fa from
and
.Fa to
-are pathnames of the same existing file in the file system's name space,
+refer to the same name in the same directory,
.Fn rename
returns successfully and performs no other action.
.Pp
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ unless both
.Fa from
and
.Fa to
-are pathnames of the same file in the file system's name space.
+are the same name in the same directory.
.Pp
To retain conformance, a compatibility interface is provided by the
.Lb libposix
