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

From: Scott Lamb <slamb@slamb.org>
Date: Jul 16, 2007, 21:58 UTC
Message-ID: <469BEA21.5080308@slamb.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707161442410.20061@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Scott Lamb wrote:
>> But Solaris remove() is broken, too, so it's a moot point.
> 
> In fact, with the Solaris behaviour for unlink(), you *cannot* have a 
> non-broken "remove()".

I'd hoped to see that they made a new syscall to properly implement the new behavior. But they didn't. It reminds me of glibc's pselect().

Best regards, Scott

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Scott Lamb <http://www.slamb.org/>

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