linux-ext4 - Re: ext4: Funny characters appended to file names

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Date:   Sun, 6 Dec 2020 17:44:14 +0000
From:   Colin Watson <cjwatson@...ntu.com>
To:     "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Cc:     Paul Menzel <pmenzel@...gen.mpg.de>,
        Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Dimitri John Ledkov <xnox@...ntu.com>
Subject: Re: ext4: Funny characters appended to file names

On Sun, Dec 06, 2020 at 05:37:46PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> I don't know why Dimitri chose to explicitly remove the new files first
> rather than just renaming over the top and then removing any leftovers
> at the end; that seems unnecessarily risky.  Though this is code that's
> apparently supposed to work on Windows as well, and the MoveFile
> function that's used to implement grub_util_rename there requires the
> destination file not to exist (sigh), so maybe it had something to do
> with that.

Incidentally, if this is actually the reason, then I think this would be
a viable replacement:

  ret = !MoveFileEx (windows_from, windows_to, MOVEFILE_REPLACE_EXISTING);

Not that I really speak the Windows API ...

-- 
Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson@...ntu.com]