On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 10:45:59AM -0500, Brian Downing wrote: > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/unlink.html > > | The path argument must not name a directory unless the process has > | appropriate privileges and the implementation supports using unlink() on > | directories. > > The above seems to imply that implementations are free to do something > with directories passed to unlink, and that it is the responsibility > if the user not to do that unless they know what is going to happen. Also, the HISTORY section of the FreeBSD manpages states: | The unlink system call traditionally allows the super-user to unlink | directories which can damage the filesystem integrity. This | implementation no longer permits it. Great. -bcd - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
