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From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To: Ronaldo Carpio <rncarpio@yahoo.com>
Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: remove() behavior?
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* Ronaldo Carpio <rncarpio@yahoo.com> [000607 18:25] wrote:
> 
> What should the behavior of the remove() stdio function be?  The
> man page says it's an alias for unlink(),  but Linux and Solaris say
> it should unlink() files and rmdir() dirs,  and Stevens' APUE agrees.

The manpage says that our remove():

     The remove() function conforms to ISO 9899: 1990 (``ISO C'').

Can you quote from a standard that says otherwise?  (I don't have
ISO 9899: 1990)

-Alfred


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