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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?
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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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