[Issue 13758] RDMD renames directory if -ofNAME is the name of a directory

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https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13758

Vladimir Panteleev <thecybershadow at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Vladimir Panteleev <thecybershadow at gmail.com> ---
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/tools/pull/167

(In reply to Andrej Mitrovic from comment #0)
> I don't think RDMD should have the power to move things around like that. It
> should fail compilation if the output name would overwrite the directory,
> with optionally providing a special switch for when you really need this
> behavior (I don't see the point of the feature though..).

I added the renaming thing to work around Windows locking executable files that
are still running. I just hadn't thought that on Posix executable don't have an
extension, and writing the executable file might happen because the output file
is actually a directory.

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