Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 07:57:45 +0100 From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: Ronaldo Carpio <rncarpio@yahoo.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: remove() behavior? Message-ID: <20000608075745.A84024@walton.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: <20000607210157.B18462@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 09:01:57PM -0700 References: <20000608012333.19196.qmail@web704.mail.yahoo.com> <20000607210157.B18462@fw.wintelcom.net>
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On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 09:01:57PM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Ronaldo Carpio <rncarpio@yahoo.com> [000607 18:25] wrote:
> >
> > What should the behavior of the remove() stdio function be? The
> > man page says it's an alias for unlink(), but Linux and Solaris say
> > it should unlink() files and rmdir() dirs, and Stevens' APUE agrees.
>
> The manpage says that our remove():
>
> The remove() function conforms to ISO 9899: 1990 (``ISO C'').
>
> Can you quote from a standard that says otherwise? (I don't have
> ISO 9899: 1990)
Single unix spec 2 says:
DESCRIPTION
The remove() function causes the file named by the pathname pointed
to by path to be no longer accessible by that name. A subsequent
attempt to open that file using that name will fail, unless it is
created anew.
If path does not name a directory, remove(path) is equivalent to
unlink(path).
If path names a directory, remove(path) is equivalent to
rmdir(path).
It would be pretty easy to change though.
David.
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