> While on the surface, renaming unlink() may seem like
> a not-too-bad-idea, in reality it has many bad parts:
>    ...

   5. Other operating systems/ file systems have, or could have
      hypothetically, the same operation.  I.e. just because NTFS
      doesn't have multiple links now (or does it?) doesn't mean
      it won't in the future.

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John Porter

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