Craig A. Berry wrote:
There's also a configure-time option in Perl to delete all versions of a file, but it's currently not working. John Malmberg submitted a patch that makes it work, but I'm afraid I have sat on it for a while, though I have not forgotten it and hope to get to it soon.
IIRC: As part of that patch, it allows a configure time option to use unlink() instead of remove().
What unlink() does is removes a link to a file, and if it is removing the last link to a file, the file is deleted.
With remove(), the file is removed, and the links become orphaned if I understand the UNIX specifications correctly. That is why unlink() may be preferred to remove().
With upcoming versions of OpenVMS, that could be a significant difference in behavior.
-John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal Opinion Only
