Re: sftp rename not good.

[Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams%sun.com@localhost>]

On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 05:29:51PM -0600, Dan O'Reilly wrote:
> At 05:20 PM 5/13/2003, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> >On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 03:22:37PM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > > Now that scares me. :)  My intention was to gather support for UNIX
> > > semantics for this, not "whatever rename(2) does on the server".
> >
> >If the semantics of file renaming vary so much from platform to
> >platform, without even the ability to reliably emulate one behaviour on
> >all those platforms, then either that variance will have to carry
> >through to SFTP or the SFTP server will have to have a way to tell the
> >SFTP client what file rename semantics it supports so the client can
> >choose which to use.
> 
> Why should the client care at all?  The basic requirement is "support a
> rename function".  Why should the client *SOFTWARE* (not USER) care how
> the server system actually performs that?  A VMS system should be allowed
> to behave as a VMS system should when renaming a file; as should a UNIX
> system or a Windows system.  That's not client-specific.

If the client doesn't care, then the semantics of rename should be upto
the server (within some parameters? which parameters?).

But I think the client cares, or, rather, this user cares :) :)

Cheers,

Nico
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