Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Bug in Ultrix2.0? Message-ID: <6777@brl-smoke.ARPA> Date: Wed, 2-Dec-87 02:30:14 EST Article-I.D.: brl-smok.6777 Posted: Wed Dec 2 02:30:14 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Dec-87 09:19:44 EST References: <10617@brl-adm.ARPA> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 7 In article <10617@brl-adm.ARPA> "oread::barbanis"@CS-UMASS.arpa writes: >However, it does not work on Sun Unix 4.2, not even if you are the >superuser (no, it is not NFS; I tried it on the server). Unlink >returns [EPERM] if you try it on a directory. So what's wrong? Systems that have a decent rmdir() system call do not need to allow unlink() to succeed on a directory. Apparently Sun is in this category.