Re: [PATCH] Expand the rename(2) workaround in mingw to cover case change in filename

[Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>]

2009/6/9 Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>:
> Alex Riesen schrieb:
>> 2009/6/8 Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>:
>>> On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, Alex Riesen wrote:
>>>> NOT TESTED. Can't. My Windows broke again. Not even compile-tested.
>>> Yes, that is pretty easy to see as you first used pold/pnew and then
>>> src/dst.
>>
>> Yep.
>>
>>> I minimally fixed up your patch (it now uses strbuf), and added a
>>> test-case.
>>>
>>> This test-case is actually crucial: it shows that your patch is not
>>> enough: the culprit is this code in builtin-mv.c:167--168:
>>>
>>>                else if (lstat(dst, &st) == 0) {
>>>                        bad = "destination exists";
>>
>> Ah, thanks. Missed that completely.
>
> That's the reason why I think any work-around for this problem is not
> worth it.

What is the lstat is for, anyway?

> If you want to be cross-platfrom, make up your mind about file names in
> advance.

I suspect it is the other way around. Some platforms just hate the idea
of being ported to. Or its designers have poor imagination and never
though about the fact that other platforms exist.