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Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!cygnus.com!kithrup.com!sef From: sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan) Subject: Re: How to delete files within C programs Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd. Message-ID: <DqquoL.5z5@kithrup.com> References: <Oum-El-Kheir.Benkahla-3004961724540001@mac-ugm-3.imag.fr> <4m5p3k$3nq@dfw-ixnews2.ix.netcom.com> <4m7sr3$rf9@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> <4m8csc$3jg@innocence.interface-business.de> Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 20:38:45 GMT Lines: 10 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:22308 comp.unix.bsd.misc:875 In article <4m8csc$3jg@innocence.interface-business.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de> wrote: >Anyway, unlink() is plain standard C, so you can get any C book to >learn this. Actually, unlink() is POSIX, not "standard C." ANSI has "remove()," which, while it doesn't guarantee that the file will be actually removed, is probably good enough in most cases. (An implementation could, instead of actually removing a file, simply change the name.)