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| author | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2024-04-26 15:06:49 +0200 |
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| committer | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2024-05-02 01:24:19 +0200 |
| commit | dcde2f70372b49ec43efc5db864c9ff585d0a2dd (patch) | |
| tree | 78b9b7425130e4a5858e4c01a524d802423879ed /man/man3/remove.3 | |
| parent | 12aca537ce78a41bbcdaf485209691e10f8002d7 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-dcde2f70372b49ec43efc5db864c9ff585d0a2dd.tar.gz | |
man/, share/mk/: Move man*/ to man/
This is a scripted change:
$ mkdir man/;
$ mv man* man/;
$ ln -st . man/man*;
$ find share/mk/ -type f \
| xargs grep -l '^MANDIR *:=' \
| xargs sed -i '/^MANDIR *:=/s,$,/man,';
$ find share/mk/dist/ -type f \
| xargs grep -l man \
| xargs sed -i 's,man%,man/%,g';
Link: <https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/YxcV4h+Xn7cd6+q2@pevik/T/>
Cc: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
Cc: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Cc: Stefan Puiu <stefan.puiu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'man/man3/remove.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/man3/remove.3 | 93 |
1 files changed, 93 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/man3/remove.3 b/man/man3/remove.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3e2c00df2e --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man3/remove.3 @@ -0,0 +1,93 @@ +'\" t +.\" This file is derived from unlink.2, which has the following copyright: +.\" +.\" This manpage is Copyright (C) 1992 Drew Eckhardt; +.\" and Copyright (C) 1993 Ian Jackson. +.\" +.\" Edited into remove.3 shape by: +.\" Graeme W. Wilford (G.Wilford@ee.surrey.ac.uk) on 13th July 1994 +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft +.\" +.TH remove 3 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" +.SH NAME +remove \- remove a file or directory +.SH LIBRARY +Standard C library +.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include <stdio.h> +.P +.BI "int remove(const char *" pathname ); +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +.BR remove () +deletes a name from the filesystem. +It calls +.BR unlink (2) +for files, and +.BR rmdir (2) +for directories. +.P +If the removed name was the +last link to a file and no processes have the file open, the file is +deleted and the space it was using is made available for reuse. +.P +If the name was the last link to a file, +but any processes still have the file open, +the file will remain in existence until the last file +descriptor referring to it is closed. +.P +If the name referred to a symbolic link, the link is removed. +.P +If the name referred to a socket, FIFO, or device, the name is removed, +but processes which have the object open may continue to use it. +.SH RETURN VALUE +On success, zero is returned. +On error, \-1 is returned, and +.I errno +is set to indicate the error. +.SH ERRORS +The errors that occur are those for +.BR unlink (2) +and +.BR rmdir (2). +.SH ATTRIBUTES +For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see +.BR attributes (7). +.TS +allbox; +lbx lb lb +l l l. +Interface Attribute Value +T{ +.na +.nh +.BR remove () +T} Thread safety MT-Safe +.TE +.SH STANDARDS +C11, POSIX.1-2008. +.SH HISTORY +POSIX.1-2001, C89, 4.3BSD. +.\" .SH NOTES +.\" Under libc4 and libc5, +.\" .BR remove () +.\" was an alias for +.\" .BR unlink (2) +.\" (and hence would not remove directories). +.SH BUGS +Infelicities in the protocol underlying NFS can cause the unexpected +disappearance of files which are still being used. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR rm (1), +.BR unlink (1), +.BR link (2), +.BR mknod (2), +.BR open (2), +.BR rename (2), +.BR rmdir (2), +.BR unlink (2), +.BR mkfifo (3), +.BR symlink (7) |