Re: rename missing in Text_IO

[charleshixson@earthling.net (Charles Hixson)]

dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner) wrote in
<9da0p9$7hu2@news.cis.okstate.edu>: 

>On Tue, 08 May 2001 22:03:54 GMT, Charles Hixson
>...
>I understood him to be talking about system calls, and the
>unix system call 'rename' works the same way he was
>describing VMS Rename to work.
>

But if what we are considering is what an Ada Library Package 
should look like, then there's no reason to copy the low level 
features of an operating system.  And the semantics of the mv 
command is generally superior.  A program should not need to 
know the details of the disk layout.  In fact, I'm not sure that 
on all systems the normal user (as opposed to a superuser) is 
even able to determine those details.  So I definitely don't 
think that the standard library should assume that this can be 
determined when there is no real need.  Of course, if the source 
were on a CD, then neither approach would work, but that's what 
one would expect if the file/volume were read/only.

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