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Re: unlink() and directories.
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Joshua Judson Rosen |
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Re: unlink() and directories. |
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Fri, 1 Nov 2002 11:20:43 -0500 |
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On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 04:36:50PM +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> Is it intentional that unlink() on GNU/Hurd does not handle
> directories?
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> It seems that unlink() (a syscall from the looks) on GNU/Linux does
> handle directories.
Hm. It does not seem this way to me--the man-page says:
EISDIR pathname refers to a directory. (This is the non-POSIX
value returned by Linux since 2.1.132.)
And the revision-2.4 Linux that I'm running does indeed fail on
"unlink (x)" where x is a directory....
--
"Actually, it was true, and I had to change truth before I could continue."
--Tim Peters
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