This is an object-oriented approach, where uos is only a proxy for the
methods on the vfs object. Some internals had to be exposed (the STATIC
keyword removed) for this to work.
Fixes#2338.
This implementation makes use of vfs.stat() and therefore has the same
properties. Known issues for all ports: uos.stat(".") on the top level
returns the error code 22, EINVAL. The same happens with
uos.stat("dirname/") where dirname IS the name of a directory.
That one was missing in the module, even if it was available in the
vfs object. The change consist of adding the name and preparing the
call to the underlying vfs module, similar to what was already
implemented e.g. for remove.
Rename is useful by itself, or for instance for a safe file replace,
consisting of the sequence:
write to a temp file
delete the original file
rename the temp file to the original file's name
These symbols are still defined in terms of the system Exxx symbols, and
can be switched to internal numeric definitions at a later stage.
Note that extmod/modlwip still uses many system Exxx symbols.
Damien George
Radomir Dopieralski
Paul Sokolovsky
Robert HH
Josef Gajdusek