Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: problems building abc Message-ID: <1991Jan4.024629.12954@NCoast.ORG> Date: 4 Jan 91 02:46:29 GMT References: <1991Jan01.211524.18484@kithrup.COM> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) Followup-To: comp.sources.d Organization: North Coast Computer Resources (ncoast) Lines: 25 As quoted from <1991Jan01.211524.18484@kithrup.COM> by sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan): +--------------- | In article schulte@thp.uni-koeln.de (Martin Schulte) writes: | >>But the big question - which I have reported to the authors - is what is | >>the call to remove _really_ supposed to be? Remove() deletes files. It | > ^^^^^^^^ | >>doesn't look like that is what is wanted here at all. | > | >I only took a short look on the sources, why do you think it should remove | >files ? | | remove - removes filename +--------------- And, lest anyone wonder, remove() is in both recent BSD (2.9 and later, 4.2 and later, at least) and recent System V (SVR3.2 has it; I didn't have it on our SVR3.1 system at work). It's *real* risky to use that name for a private function of a program. ++Brandon -- Me: Brandon S. Allbery VHF/UHF: KB8JRR on 220, 2m, 440 Internet: allbery@NCoast.ORG Packet: KB8JRR @ WA8BXN America OnLine: KB8JRR AMPR: KB8JRR.AmPR.ORG [44.70.4.88] uunet!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery Delphi: ALLBERY