Paul Eggert wrote:
> I reviewed all calls to the affected functions and have a few followup patches 
> that I plan to install separately soon, and mention here as I do.

I installed the patches (attached). Closing the bug report.

I'll CC: this to Michael, as the last patch is to the Tramp tests, and he may 
want Tramp to become consistent with the new behavior for rename-file etc.