Hi Helge > Man page: rename.2 > Issue: So far, the manpage does not mention a variable I<pathname> > > "The directory containing I<oldpath> has the sticky bit (B<S_ISVTX>) set and " > "the process's effective user ID is neither the user ID of the file to be " > "deleted nor that of the directory containing it, and the process is not " > "privileged (Linux: does not have the B<CAP_FOWNER> capability); or " > "I<newpath> is an existing file and the directory containing it has the " > "sticky bit set and the process's effective user ID is neither the user ID of " > "the file to be replaced nor that of the directory containing it, and the " > "process is not privileged (Linux: does not have the B<CAP_FOWNER> " > "capability); or the filesystem containing I<pathname> does not support " > "renaming of the type requested." Wow. That bug has been present for 28 years (since the page was first added in 1993)! s/pathname/oldpath/ Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
