From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu Nov  5 11:39:05 1998
Subject: rename deletes files!
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Francesco Potorti` <F dot Potorti at cnuce dot cnr dot it>
Cc: Octave bugs list <bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 11:38:43 -0600 (CST)

On  5-Nov-1998, Francesco Potorti` <F dot Potorti at cnuce dot cnr dot it> wrote:

| Try
| 
| 	rename ("a", "a~")
| 
| it deleted the file "a"!

I'm unable to reproduce this problem.

Octave's rename function is implemented using the C library rename
function.  If that's not available, it uses a replacement from the GNU
project.  I don't remember the exact source now, but it was probably
one of the fileutils distributions.

Can you please try to debug what is causing the failure?

Thanks,

jwe