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

On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Scott Lamb wrote:

Linus Torvalds wrote:

quoted

In fact, with the Solaris behaviour for unlink(), you *cannot* have a 
non-broken "remove()".

I'd hoped to see that they made a new syscall to properly implement the
new behavior.

Ahh, yes, with a new system call you could do it.

But they didn't. It reminds me of glibc's pselect().

Yeah, that was a bit pointless, although it does make it easier to port 
binaries and then have them to work in practice most of the time.

		Linus