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

From: Thomas Glanzmann <thomas@glanzmann.de>
Date: Jul 16, 2007, 20:39 UTC
Message-ID: <20070716203950.GI16878@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707161332280.20061@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Hello,

> No, but we don't *want* the "rmdir for directories" part!

that is what I meant. We call unlink because we want unlink to _fail_ on directories while it deletes file. I forgot about the original discussion but Johannes refreshed my memory. If a file in our history becomes a directory we want to get it out of our way. And we want to do that by call unlink.

	Thomas

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