Re: [PATCH] Do _not_ call unlink on a directory

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On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Scott Lamb wrote:
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > In fact, with the Solaris behaviour for unlink(), you *cannot* have a 
> > non-broken "remove()".
> 
> I'd hoped to see that they made a new syscall to properly implement the
> new behavior.

Ahh, yes, with a new system call you could do it.

> But they didn't. It reminds me of glibc's pselect().

Yeah, that was a bit pointless, although it does make it easier to port 
binaries and then have them to work in practice most of the time.

		Linus
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