From: "Uwe Kleine-König" <ukleinek@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Installation failure caused by CDPATH environment variable
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:19:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070717201922.GA28072@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vhco2ancg.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
Hello Junio,
Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> writes:
> > (That is, Solaris' tar has the 'C' option, which is quite a good
> > indication, that it's included in POSIX :-)
>
> Oh, I cannot resist ;-)
>
> Solaris has unlink(2) capable of removing a directory, but I do
> not think it is included in POSIX.
I don't have access to the POSIX documents, but it would surprise me if
they forbid unlink(2) being able to unlink directories. :-)
You need some effort to support tar -C and to catch directories in
unlink. So Sun put the effort in tar, because it may be needed to be
conformant to POSIX or some other standard.
Best regards
Uwe
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Uwe Kleine-König
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-17 20:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-11 16:59 Installation failure caused by CDPATH environment variable Wincent Colaiuta
2007-07-11 17:09 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-12 7:51 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-12 8:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-12 10:24 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-07-12 11:52 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-12 11:37 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-11 21:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-17 11:40 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2007-07-17 18:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-17 19:07 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-07-17 20:19 ` Uwe Kleine-König [this message]
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