Re: (Unlink(file) == rm file) ? (ignore this mail):(explain diffs);
| From: | Miguel Cruz | Date: | Tue, 28 May 2002 18:36:15 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: (Unlink(file) == rm file) ? (ignore this mail):(explain diffs); | ||
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On Tue, 28 May 2002, Jimmy Lantz wrote:
> (Unlink(file) == rm file) ? (ignore this mail):(explain diffs);
>
> Does PHP unlink function handle deletion of files equally as the "rm"
> command on the system in my case FreeBSD.
> Or does it involve caching/handling files in any different way?
It just calls the OS unlink() function, which is presumably what rm does.
Actually I just did a trace and that's exactly what rm does. rm of course
has a whole lot of extra options, but they just affect which files it acts
on.
miguel