Posts: sunos

unlink(2) can actually remove directories

I have always thought that unlink(2) was meant to remove files only but, yesterday, SunOS (SXDE 200709) proved my wrong. I was sanity-checking the source tree for the imminent ATF 0.4 release under this platform, which is always scary, and the tests for the atf::fs::remove function were failing — only when run as root. The failure happened in the cleanup phase of the test case, in which ATF attempts to recursively remove the temporary work directory.

February 3, 2008 · Tags: atf, portability, sunos
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