Posted by Andrew Poelstra on 07/13/06 18:52

On 2006-07-13, Riemer Palstra <riemer@palstra.com> wrote:
> On 2006-07-12, Krustov <me@privacy.net> wrote:
>> unlink() is a silly name for a delete command isnt it .
>
> Why? That's exactly what it does - removing the link to a file (and
> probably decrementing the link count), isn't it? :)
>

It does a fair bit more than that, though. It also changes inode tables,
changes directory listings, etc.

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