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Re: I am confused about the configure rename managing hardlinks test.


From: Bruno Haible
Subject: Re: I am confused about the configure rename managing hardlinks test.
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2017 03:10:35 +0200
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John E. Malmberg wrote:
> I have read and re-read:
> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/rename.html
> 
> And I do not see anything in that text that states the behavior would be 
> a noop when the source and destination links to the same file.

It's in the third paragraph, the sentence about
"different directory entries for the same existing file".

Bruno




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