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From: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: mbase is missing something - ie remove function
Message-ID: <1991Jan9.194739.23938@investor.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 9 Jan 91 19:47:39 GMT
References: <7389@plains.NoDak.edu> <49906@prls.UUCP>
Reply-To: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
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In article <49906@prls.UUCP> gordon@prls.UUCP (Gordon Vickers) writes:
>In article <7389@plains.NoDak.edu> rajkumar@plains.NoDak.edu (A. Joseph Rajkumar) writes:
>>Hi
>>
>>  I would appreciate knowing if anyone has got mbase to compile
>>correctly. I tried it and it seems a remove function is missing.
>
>      Yes, remove() is missing. It is called only once and it's argument
>          is just a charector string.  I replaced it with code that simply
>          nulls the argument string. This is problable wrong but at least
>          it allowed me to compile (but not test) the program.
>
The call to remove comes after the question of whether you want to
overwrite an existing relation.  The implication is the file is removed,
so I substituted unlink(rel).  This seems to work.

I had a problem with the system call to chmod, so I called chmod()
directly.  I wonder why he uses 0755?
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