SCO remove() and unlink()

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 06:45:23PM +0100, Kevin Steves wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Gert Doering wrote:
> : OTOH, we don't need a bsd-remove.c - just add something like
> : 
> : #ifndef HAVE_REMOVE
> : # define remove(a) unlink(a)
> : #endif
> 
> remove() can also delete directories.

Not according to my man page.  I checked various, but the clearest is
FreeBSD's:

DESCRIPTION
     The remove() function is an alias for the unlink(2) system call.  It
     deletes the file referenced by path.
...
ERRORS
     The remove() function may fail and set errno for any of the errors speci-
     fied for the routine unlink(2).

unlink(2) lists in turn:

     [EPERM]         The named file is a directory.


gert

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