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Re: [perl #24119] CPAN.pm error in Win32: uses rename() not File::Copy::move

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From:
Slaven Rezic
Date:
October 6, 2003 15:51
Subject:
Re: [perl #24119] CPAN.pm error in Win32: uses rename() not File::Copy::move
Message ID:
87he2m6n82.fsf@vran.herceg.de
Phill Wolf (via RT) <perlbug-followup@perl.org> writes:

> # New Ticket Created by  Phill Wolf 
> # Please include the string:  [perl #24119]
> # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. 
> # <URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=24119 >
> 
> 
> CPAN.pm (invoked as cpan in the command shell) reports a permission 
> problem trying to move a directory. The trouble is that CPAN.pm is using 
> the rename() function, which in Win32 can change a file's name but not 
> move it from one directory to another.

In this case an entry for rename() in perlport.pod is also missing.

Regards,
	Slaven

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