Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 11:42:24 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: unlink ?? Message-ID: <20030506154224.GA7174@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <005e01c313d9$82d73a00$193c82a4@tun.st.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 10:15:45AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Tue, 6 May 2003, saber_zrelli wrote: > >> Hi all , >> i don't have the unlink utility in my cygwin distribution , >> how could i suppress a link then ? >> >> "rm -f " do not work. >> does unlink for cygwin exists ? > >You are confused. "unlink()" is a system call. It exists on Cygwin. >"rm" is a program that calls "unlink()". It also exists on Cygwin. Actually unlink is a UNIX(R) command, too, and a dangerous one, at that. It's not available for cygwin. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/