On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 04:36:50PM +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > Is it intentional that unlink() on GNU/Hurd does not handle > directories? > > It seems that unlink() (a syscall from the looks) on GNU/Linux does > handle directories.
Hm. It does not seem this way to me--the man-page says:
EISDIR pathname refers to a directory. (This is the non-POSIX
value returned by Linux since 2.1.132.)
And the revision-2.4 Linux that I'm running does indeed fail on
"unlink (x)" where x is a directory....
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"Actually, it was true, and I had to change truth before I could continue."
--Tim Peters
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