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| Reply To: | VANCE,JEFF (HP-Cupertino,ex1) |
| Date: | Thu, 28 Dec 2000 21:45:22 -0800 |
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Well said!
Jeff
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Hirsch [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
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> Yes, PURGELINK is designed to work like the Unix 'rm'
> command, which calls unlink() to delete a directory entry--whether
> it is a hard link or a symbolic link, whether the file is opened or
> not. It's necessary for POSIX compliance, I'm pretty sure, that
> 'rm' and unlink() work this way. :PURGELINK could have had different
> semantics, but I guess that they decided it was simplest to make it
> like 'rm' -- with different file syntax.
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