Thus spake Greg A. Woods ("GAW> ") sometime Today...

GAW> Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 13:58:02 -0400 (EDT)
GAW> From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
GAW> Reply-To: NetBSD Kernel Technical Discussion List
GAW>     <tech-kern@NetBSD.org>
GAW> To: Roland Dowdeswell <elric@imrryr.org>
GAW> Cc: NetBSD Kernel Technical Discussion List <tech-kern@NetBSD.org>
GAW> Subject: Re: funlink() for fun!
GAW>
GAW> [ On Friday, July 11, 2003 at 11:03:03 (-0400), Roland Dowdeswell wrote: ]
GAW> > Subject: Re: funlink() for fun!
GAW> >
GAW> > I think that funlink(2) as an idea doesn't really make sense.
GAW> > unlink(2) specifically operates on directory entries, not on files.
GAW>
GAW> Unlink(2) may specifically also operate on files as well as the link in
GAW> the parent directory, and it will always also operate on the file if
GAW> that file has only one link.

Your logic is flawed.  Please show how unlink(2) operates on files.

- it doesn't write to them.
- it doesn't create them.
- it doesn't even really destroy them, though it arranges for them to be
  potentially destroyed once the link count goes to zero and the filesystem
  reclaims the blocks associated with them.

				--*greywolf;
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