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

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Jul 16, 2007, 20:29 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707161327120.20061@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707161315120.20061@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

>
> [..] mkdir/rmdir have existed as 
> system calls since at least SVR3.

Correction. Apparently since 4.2BSD (1983).

		Linus

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