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Subject: Re: How to safely remove a hard link to a directory? 
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 21:46:38 -0700
From: Pius Fischer <pius@iago.ienet.com>
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Sorry, a short follow-up ... I just ran across an old message
from Joerg Wunsch on the mailing list archives ... Is it still
safe to just call unlink(2) on the directory name to remove the
hard link?

Why does rmdir not work?

Excuse my ignorance and thanks again,
Pius