What is the difference between unlink() and remove().  Assume i have a
file x and it has a hardlink y.
then what is the difference between
unlink("x");
remove ("x");

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ravi wrote:

> What is the difference between unlink() and remove().  Assume i have a
> file x and it has a hardlink y.
> then what is the difference between
> unlink("x");
> remove ("x");

unlink deletes files, rmdir deletes directories, remove deletes either.

man unlink
man remove

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2004-09-15, 00:35(-07), Erik Max Francis:
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>
> unlink deletes files, rmdir deletes directories, remove deletes either.
[...]

And to do so, remove does a "lstat" on the file to find out if
it's a directory or not. That means that "remove" involves two
system calls (lstat and either unlink or rmdir). You can save
the "lstat" if you know the type of the file by advance by
calling directly unlink or rmdir.

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