Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!ccicpg!felix!zemon From: zemon@felix.UUCP (Art Zemon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Bug in Ultrix2.0? Message-ID: <15280@felix.UUCP> Date: Fri, 4-Dec-87 16:45:21 EST Article-I.D.: felix.15280 Posted: Fri Dec 4 16:45:21 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 10-Dec-87 05:07:20 EST References: <10570@brl-adm.ARPA> Sender: daemon@felix.UUCP Reply-To: zemon@felix.UUCP (Art Zemon) Organization: FileNet Corp., Costa Mesa, CA Lines: 16 In article <10570@brl-adm.ARPA> "oread::barbanis"@CS-UMASS.arpa writes: >Subject: Bug in Ultrix 2.0 ? >If you are a superuser and do unlink("foo"), it always unlinks, >even if foo is a directory, and even if this directory is not >empty. This isn't a bug in Ultrix, the same "problem" also existed in 4.2 BSD (the only other system on which I, ahem, tested it). I could argue that if the superuser says unlink it, he means it and the kernel should not forbid it. Regular users are protected from such folly. -- -- Art Zemon By Computer: ...!hplabs!felix!zemon By Air: Archer N33565 By Golly: moderator of comp.unix.ultrix