Re: sftp rename not good.

[Damien Miller <djm%mindrot.org@localhost>]

Dan O'Reilly wrote:
> At 03:57 PM 5/13/2003, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>>* Joseph Galbraith <galb-list%vandyke.com@localhost> [030513 12:28] wrote:
>>I think there should be some way of invoking an actual rename(2)
>>on the server.
> 
> That would be best, IMHO.  That way, you can implement server-specific
> behavior.  For example, those of us on VMS have versioned file systems,
> so the behavior of a rename on VMS could be drastically different than
> that on a UNIX system.

Please no! Protocol methods should be specified to behave in a
particular way, regardless of what server environment is in use.

A "protocol method with unix-like rename semantics" has some merit though.

-d