Re: How to rename a file?

[Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr>]

Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:

> Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr> writes:
> 
> >> made on "frameworks" (which POSIX bindings may perhaps also be included, as
> >> cross platform was in mind) and tools that abstract the C interfaces and
> >> work in a more Ada like nature.
> >
> > I won't call POSIX a framework since it is a _binding_ but yet not a
> > thin one.
> 
> Most POSIX.5 implementations aren't bindings.
> 
> > And yes in cross-platform environemnt it is definitly the choice,
> > this is why I do use it!
> 
> IMHO, the POSIX.5 interface is a horrible mess, combining the
> uselessness of POSIX.1 with some additional unfortunate design
> decisions.

Maybe, maybe not... I'm not a POSIX expert ! But yet I have some large
applications that run without modification on Linux and Windows using a lot
OS routines (Renaming files, running subprocess, waiting for process to
terminate, retrieving environment variable values, retrieving all files on a
specific directory...). I'm not saying that POSIX is in theory a good choice
but it is the best choice I have seen so far... Do you know of other choices ?

Pascal.

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