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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 09:38:35 +0100
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: FSEXT hooks and symlinks
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Hello.

DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> > unlink: removes the symlink, i.e. doesn't dereference the symlink
> > remove: removes the target of the symlink, i.e. resolves the symlink
> 
> No.  Linux (and every other *nix I can remember) doesn't do this -
> it's always the symlink that's removed, never the target.  I don't
> think there *is* a way to remove the target of a symlink without
> reading the symlink yourself and figuring out what it's pointing to.

Yes. Here's what draft 7 of the Austin Group's new POSIX standard says about
remove on page 1702 of the System Interfaces manual:

"If path does not name a directory, remove(path) shall be equivalent to
unlink(path). 
If path names a directory, remove(path) shall be equivalent to rmdir(path)."

Thanks, bye, Rich =]

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Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]