On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 10:34:11AM -0500, John Mason wrote: > unlink is not really a "link"... it's the name of the command. The > "unlink" command really just means delete. Not a clue why they call it > unlink and not delete.... but basically calling unlink on a file OR a > hard link OR a symbolic link will remove the link/file.
Actually it is the other way around. There is no command to delete a file - all you can do is decrement the inode link count. The file gets deleted as a side effect when the link count drops to zero. The only thing an 'unlink' is sure to remove is the directory entry. That is how hard links work. Regards, DigbyT -- Digby R. S. Tarvin digbyt(at)digbyt.com http://www.digbyt.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
