> The manual page for unlink() and the actual behaviour do not match
> when the file to be unlinked is a directory.
>
>
> The manual page says that unlink() returns EISDIR when the pathname
> refers to a directory. But the kernel returns EPERM for minix and
> derivatives ext,ext2 etc., see the file namei.c in those directories.
>
> The fix for these is trivial (if I understand correctly how the kernel
> handles the unlink command) and left as an exercise to the reader.
Yes, editing manpages is easy :-). From section 5.5.1.4 of the 1996
edition of the POSIX.1 spec:
[EPERM] The file named by _path_ is a directory, and either the
calling process does not hae appropriate privileges or the
implementation prohibits using unlink() on directories.
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