Hello Michael,
On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 04:24:14PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Apr 2020 at 13:12, Helge Kreutzmann <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:40:26AM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> > > On 4/19/20 8:48 AM, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> > > > **
> > > >
> > > > If newpath exists, this is already the reason for the failure?
> > > >
> > > > "If I<newpath> exists but the operation fails for some reason, B<rename>() "
> > > > "guarantees to leave an instance of I<newpath> in place."
> > >
> > > I do not understand this report. Please elaborate.
> >
> > Trying to 2nd guess what the original translator, who unfortunately is
> > no longer active, might have thought:
> >
> > If you want to rename but the new path already exists, how can there
> > be other reasons for failure at all?
>
> Because renaming onto an existing 'newpath' is permitted! Earlier, the
> man page says:
>
> If newpath already exists, it will be atomically replaced, so that
> there is no point at which another process attempting to access
> newpath will find it missing.
>
> I think the translator must not have understood this.
>
> > If this still does not make sense, please close this report without
> > changes, of course.
>
> Please close.
Thanks & Done
Greetings
Helge
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