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Bug 11631 – std.file.rename doesn't work across different mount points

Status: RESOLVED
Resolution: INVALID
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
Component: phobos
Product: D
Version: D2
Platform: All
OS: Linux
Creation time: 2013-11-28T07:05:50Z
Last change time: 2019-11-18T18:23:28Z
Assigned to: No Owner
Creator: Artem Tarasov

Comments

Comment #0 by lomereiter — 2013-11-28T07:05:50Z

man 2 rename / ERRORS / EXDEV For this reason Python users use shutil.move instead of os.rename.

Comment #1 by bugzilla — 2019-11-18T16:05:58Z

Adding a bug note: https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/7288

Comment #2 by dlang-bugzilla — 2019-11-18T18:23:28Z

Having the operation be atomic and NOT copy the file contents is a desirable property in many circumstances. As such, this is not a bug. Adding std.file.move which tries rename and falls back to copy would be a reasonable enhancement, though.