Open System Services System Calls Reference Manual (G06.25+, H06.03+)

System Functions (r) rename_oss(2)

— /dev

— /dev/tty or /dev/null

— lost+found

[EEXIST] The to parameter speciﬁes an existing nonempty directory or an existing Guar-

dian ﬁle (a ﬁle in /G).

[EFAULT] Either the to or from parameter is an invalid address.

[EFSBAD] The ﬁleset catalog for one of the ﬁlesets involved in the operation is corrupt.

[EGUARDIANOPEN]

The from parameter speciﬁes a regular disk ﬁle on the Guardian ﬁle system (that

is, a ﬁle in /G or in a directory within /G) that is already opened in exclusive

mode by Enscribe.

[EINVAL] One of the following conditions exists:

• The from or to parameter is not a well-formed directory.

• The calling process attempted to rename . (dot) or ..(dot-dot).

• The from parameter is an ancestor of the to parameter.

[EISDIR] The to parameter speciﬁes a directory and the from parameter speciﬁes a

ﬁlename that is not a directory.

[ELOOP] Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating either the to or from

parameter.

[ENAMETOOLONG]

One of the following is too long:

• The pathname pointed to by the to parameter

• The pathname pointed to by the from parameter

• A component of the pathname pointed to by the to parameter

• A component of the pathname pointed to by the from parameter

• The intermediate result of pathname resolution when a symbolic link is

part of the to or from parameter

The pathconf( ) function can be called to obtain the applicable limits.

[ENOENT] One of the following conditions exists:

• The path speciﬁed by the from parameter is an empty string.

• The ﬁle speciﬁed by the from parameter does not exist.

• The path parameter speciﬁes a ﬁle on a remote HP NonStop node but

communication with the remote node has been lost.

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