Re: unlink EPERM vs EISDIR

[email protected] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Newsgroups gmane.os.hurd.devel.readers
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Roland McGrath <[email protected]> writes:

> I've just become aware that unlink on a directory is required by POSIX to
> fail with EPERM, while our code (diskfs) and (so I am told) Linux returns
> EISDIR.  I looked at FreeBSD 4.3 and NetBSD 1.5, and those use EPERM.  
> If there are no objections, I will change diskfs to return EPERM.

Lame, but sigh.
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