On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Frederik Fouvry wrote: > > ,-- On Wed, 3 Mar, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > > [...] > > | It is not always easy to see if a directory is empty. For example, > | when NFS is being used, sometimes .nfs files are created in the > | directories, so the directory is not really empty. > > Won't remove commands refuse to clean up a directory if it's not > empty?
The ANSI C remove() function removes non-empty directories under Linux. :-) On the other hand, the unlink() system call does not remove non-empty directories. Since Automake is multi-platform, it is wise to verify that all supported platforms can support safe directory removal semantics. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen
