Re: sftp rename not good.

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

Dan O'Reilly wrote:
> 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? 

Because the semantics matter: will the server's rename() overwrite an
existing file? Is it atomic? Will it cross filesystems?

Put a different way: if the semantics are irrelevant, then why are we
even having this discussion?

-d