Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!linac!uwm.edu!spool2.mu.edu!uunet!auspex!guy From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: problems building abc Message-ID: <5211@auspex.auspex.com> Date: 12 Jan 91 21:45:17 GMT References: <1991Jan4.025136.13039@NCoast.ORG> <5183@auspex.auspex.com> Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Lines: 18 >The ANSI standard added remove. Yup, I know.... >It is the same as unlink under UNIX. Perhaps, unless there's some way in which one can read the standard as to say "remove()" should work on directories - but a quick look at POSIX didn't indicate any way in which I'd read the standard as saying that. >Since 4.2, 4.3, and 4.3-tahoe preceded the ANSI standard, Yup, I know... >they certainly can't be held accountable for not having it..... I wasn't holding them accountable for not having it, I was just noting that it didn't have it.