On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Thomas Glanzmann wrote: > > Hello, > > > > is there a reason why we call unlink and not remove? > > > Exactly because we only want to remove _files_. > > of course. That is the whole point. Call unlink for files, rmdir for > directories. No, but we don't *want* the "rmdir for directories" part! That's the whole point. Calling "remove()" would be *wrong*. We want the *sane* "unlink()" behaviour, where it only removes files, and returns an error for directories. Linus - 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
