RE: C rename returns -1 but error text says no error exists

It may not sound like the right application, but it is. Well, that is if
you use the IFS APIs. I would recommend you use the prototype that Sharon
so kindly contributed a short time ago. That one is exactly like mine
except that I don't rename it from IBM's name.

Still, I haven't seen an answer about negative return code while errno is
zero. OTOH, I have not looked at documentation for the RENAME API that
you're using.

Dennis Lovelady
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I looked at using the *STRING option but from the documentation it
didn't sound like the correct application.

Nope, that's not it. I still get a zero error number and 'There is

no error' text.

Don't the strings need to be null terminated? That's why I added the

null to the end.

They do need to be null terminated, but you can get RPG to do it for
you by coding OPTIONS(*STRING) on the prototype and coding the passed
parameter as a character value rather than a pointer.

Without OPTIONS(*STRING)

temp = %trim(name) + x'00';
proc(%addr(temp));

With OPTIONS(*STRING)

proc(%trim(name));

With OPTIONS(*STRING : *TRIM)

proc(name);