[Issue 5032] std.file.rename acts differently on Windows and Linux when the target file already exists.

Sun Mar 10 19:14:03 PDT 2013

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5032

Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com> 2013-03-10 19:14:02 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> Is that the right thing to do, though? I'd expect the function to throw if the
> target exists. Doesn't help that the docs for either "copy" and "rename" do not
> specify what it does in that situation.

Yeah I agree. If anything make the forced renaming an option, not a default
behavior. That's how most tools work on win32 anyway, dunno about Posix though.

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