Subject: Re: Win32 build fix - UT_unlink
From: Mike Nordell (tamlin@algonet.se)
Date: Sun Oct 14 2001 - 20:15:38 CDT
I've now gotten some further information on this issue:
[ remove() removes directories also ]
>The Opengroup's single-unix-specification does place this constraint
>on remove and notes that the function is originally derived from
>ANSI C and POSIX.1
>While it is derived from ANSI C and POSIX.1 neither of those specifications
>specify that remove should work on anything other than files.
If this information is currect, it seems to be safe to use plain remove()
over UT_unlink. Should it be deemed unsafe since some implementations can
delete directories in case the string should point to a directory, which I
believe could only be possible by a bug in AW, perhaps the function should
be renamed UT_deleteFile()?
In any case I think ut_string.h/.cpp is the wrong place for file functions.
What about UT_storage.h/.cpp?
/Mike
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