Re: [PATCH] Do _not_ call unlink on a directory

From: Thomas Glanzmann <thomas@glanzmann.de>
Date: Jul 16, 2007, 20:25 UTC
Message-ID: <20070716202550.GH16878@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707161315120.20061@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Hello,

> > is there a reason why we call unlink and not remove?

> Exactly because we only want to remove _files_.

of course. That is the whole point. Call unlink for files, rmdir for directories.

	Thomas

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