Subject: Re: Win32 build fix - UT_unlink
From: Aaron Lehmann (aaronl@vitelus.com)
Date: Sun Oct 14 2001 - 05:26:21 CDT
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 10:15:14AM +0200, Mike Nordell wrote:
> 2. This function should probably not even exist. As is noted in the patch,
> remove() is an ANSI C function and as such should be available on all our
> platforms. Or...? :-)
> (should any platform not have remove() I think it's more appropriate for
> _that_ platform to implement it)
remove has slightly different behavior than unlink
remove deletes a name from the filesystem. It calls
unlink for files, and rmdir for directories.
so it would be okay to use it as long as you keep that in mind.
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