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On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 10:44:35AM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: >At 04:47 AM 12/19/2000, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>The remove(3) call in newlib is implemented as a simple call to unlink(2). >> >>SUSv2/Linux/OpenBSD on the other hand define remove(3) as follows: >> >> If path does not name a directory, remove(path) is equivalent to unlink(path). >> If path names a directory, remove(path) is equivalent to rmdir(path). >> >>I would plead to implement our own remove(3) call, overriding the newlib >>implementation. AFAICS, we can't change the newlib implementation because >>newlib doesn't know of rmdir(2) at all. >> >>Thoughts? > >Do it!;-) Sure. cgf
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