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

On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Thomas Glanzmann wrote:

Hello,

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is there a reason why we call unlink and not remove?

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Exactly because we only want to remove _files_.

of course. That is the whole point. Call unlink for files, rmdir for
directories.

No, but we don't *want* the "rmdir for directories" part! 

That's the whole point.

Calling "remove()" would be *wrong*. We want the *sane* "unlink()" 
behaviour, where it only removes files, and returns an error for 
directories.

		Linus