From: "Peter Cassidy" <peter DOT cassidy DOT ps AT rocksoft DOT com>
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Subject: Re: 9$$DJREN.$$T Rename bug?
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 23:46:39 +0930
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> > > Occasionally (and seemingly at random) I end up with the file
> > > 9$$DJREN.$$T floating around.
> >
> > It's some kind of bug.  Please try to find a sequence of actions that
> > consistently causes such files to be left around.
> >
It seems to happen when the input file name has no file extension.  When I
added ".tmp" to the end of the input file names, the problem went away.

Also, looking at the rename code, it seems to me that it does the rename to
the temporary file name before it checks to see if the destination file name
is a valid name.  But I could be wrong.

Peter