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Re: Um... How do you rename a file?
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Re: Um... How do you rename a file?


  • Subject: Re: Um... How do you rename a file?
  • From: p3consulting <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 17:48:15 +0100

Le 26-mars-04, ` 12:20, Alastair Houghton a icrit :

On 26 Mar 2004, at 09:17, p3consulting wrote:

A latest small point:
case-sensitivity of the target file system may influence the success or
failure of a rename operation according to
the system call used by the application:
Finder (Carbon application) is successfull at renaming a file to
another case spelling: eg "foo" to "Foo"
where ProjectBuilder and Xcode (Cocoa application) both fail to.

In consequence, moving files from a case-sensitive file system to a
non-case sensitve one may turn out to be a tricky operation:
the set of files ("foo", "Foo") will generate the set of results
("foo", failure) if movePath:toPath is used.

For that particular aspect movePath:toPath is NOT equivalent to mv.

I don't know about you, but I consider that to be a bug.



I consider that to be - to say the least - an annoying "feature" ;)

Somebody at Apple should put the "correct" name on this one
(could be interesting to trace system calls to see what exactly movePath:toPath: does to fail where mv is successfull)


Pascal Pochet
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References: 
 >Re: Um... How do you rename a file? (From: Ken Tozier <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Um... How do you rename a file? (From: Alastair Houghton <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Um... How do you rename a file? (From: p3consulting <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Um... How do you rename a file? (From: Alastair Houghton <email@hidden>)

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