From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Glanzmann Subject: Re: [PATCH] Do _not_ call unlink on a directory Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:25:50 +0200 Message-ID: <20070716202550.GH16878@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> References: <11846059721204-git-send-email-sithglan@stud.uni-erlangen.de> <469BC17D.60806@slamb.org> <20070716200024.GD16878@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: GIT To: Linus Torvalds X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jul 16 22:25:55 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IAX8k-0000SQ-Ox for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:25:55 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752198AbXGPUZw (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:25:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752055AbXGPUZw (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:25:52 -0400 Received: from faui03.informatik.uni-erlangen.de ([131.188.30.103]:58399 "EHLO faui03.informatik.uni-erlangen.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751781AbXGPUZv (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:25:51 -0400 Received: by faui03.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Postfix, from userid 31401) id 8E2F93F435; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:25:50 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-05-02) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hello, > > is there a reason why we call unlink and not remove? > Exactly because we only want to remove _files_. of course. That is the whole point. Call unlink for files, rmdir for directories. Thomas