Hello Junio,
Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > (That is, Solaris' tar has the 'C' option, which is quite a good
> > indication, that it's included in POSIX :-)
>
> Oh, I cannot resist ;-)
>
> Solaris has unlink(2) capable of removing a directory, but I do
> not think it is included in POSIX.
I don't have access to the POSIX documents, but it would surprise me if
they forbid unlink(2) being able to unlink directories. :-)
You need some effort to support tar -C and to catch directories in
unlink. So Sun put the effort in tar, because it may be needed to be
conformant to POSIX or some other standard.
Best regards
Uwe
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