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From: ghe@physics.orst.edu (Guangliang He)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Why remove() doesn't remove (symbolic links)?
Keywords: remove(), symbolic link
Message-ID: <1991May03.174126.13324@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU>
Date: 3 May 91 17:41:26 GMT
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The title pretty much said it all. The remove() system call fails to remove
the sybolic links. The man page of remove() did mention anything special 
about symolic links. 

Here is a little program shows the problem:
------
#include <stdio.h>

main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    if (remove(argv[1]))
	fprintf(stderr, "can't remove %s\n", argv[1]);
}
------

It works fine (no error message) with regular files but prints the 
'can't remove.." message on symbolic links. 

Is it a bug or 'work as designed' :-(???

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  Guangliang He                |   If anything can go wrong, it will.
  ghe@physics.orst.edu         |            -- Murphy's Law