Re: Problems with lposix on win32

[Chris Marrin <chris@...>]

D Burgess wrote:
> I understand, someone correct me if I am wrong that on
> Unix unlink will remove the file when the last user of it
> closes the file. THis equals the FILEFLAG_DELETE_ON_CLOSE
> on windows.

I think the clib remove() function is intentionally non-specific. Remove 
a file with a given name and no one can access it by that name again. It 
says nothing about what capabilities the caller must have or if the 
action actually frees any disk space. I think this is a good spec for a 
cross-platform function.

Ok, so maybe clib is not so arbitrary :-)

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