[ILUG-BOM] simple alternative to rename()

[S. Krishnan]

--- Shahed Ali <shahed at enoor.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a C program which calls rename()
> 
> However, it tries to rename a file from a filesys on
> one device
> to one on another, and this results in errno=18.
> 

I believe rename() does not work across filesystems. 
I do not know of any other system call that provides
similar functionality, so that I guess you will have
to use the copy/ unlink modality, unless of course I
have missed something somewhere in libc.

Rgds,

Krishnan


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