ISO/IEC 9899: 1990

7.9.4.1 The remove function
...
Description
The remove function causes the file whose name is the string pointed to by
filename
to be no longer accessible by that name. A subsequent attemp to open that
file
using that name will fail, unless it is created anew. If the file is open,
the behaviour of
the remove function is implementation-defined.





"Mike Nordell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@abisource.com on 14/10/2001 21:03:56

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Aaron Lehmann wrote:


> remove has slightly different behavior than unlink
>
>        remove  deletes  a  name  from  the  filesystem.  It calls
>        unlink for files, and rmdir for directories.

Well I be... :-)

This is clearly a place where MS and *nix don't play along too well. MS
documentation states remove() is only used for files while *nix docs state
it's to remove both files and dirs. A obviously trust the *nix docs more,
but do we have anyone anyone here that has access to the (pre 99) ANSI C
standard? Could it be that the standard only says "filesystem entry" or
something like that?

/Mike - please don't cc






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