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Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 11:42:24 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: unlink ??
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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

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