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          --- old/usr/src/man/man2/unlink.2
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  12      -.TH UNLINK 2 "May 18, 2007"
       13 +.TH UNLINK 2 "Dec 15, 2016"
  13   14  .SH NAME
  14   15  unlink, unlinkat \- remove directory entry
  15   16  .SH SYNOPSIS
  16   17  .LP
  17   18  .nf
  18   19  #include <unistd.h>
  19   20  
  20   21  \fBint\fR \fBunlink\fR(\fBconst char *\fR\fIpath\fR);
  21   22  .fi
  22   23
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  54   55  .LP
  55   56  When the file's link count becomes 0 and no process has the file open, the
  56   57  space occupied by the file will be freed and the file is no longer accessible.
  57   58  If one or more processes have the file open when the last link is removed, the
  58   59  link is removed before \fBunlink()\fR or \fBunlinkat()\fR returns, but the
  59   60  removal of the file contents is postponed until all references to the file are
  60   61  closed.
  61   62  .sp
  62   63  .LP
  63   64  If the \fIpath\fR argument is a directory and the filesystem supports
  64      -\fBunlink()\fR and \fBunlinkat()\fR on directories, the directory is unlinked
  65      -from its parent with no cleanup being performed.  In UFS, the disconnected
  66      -directory will be found the next time the filesystem is checked with
  67      -\fBfsck\fR(1M). The \fBunlink()\fR and \fBunlinkat()\fR functions will not fail
  68      -simply because a directory is not empty. The user with appropriate privileges
  69      -can orphan a non-empty directory without generating an error message.
       65 +\fBunlink()\fR and \fBunlinkat()\fR on directories the behaviour is dependent
       66 +on the filesystem.
  70   67  .sp
  71   68  .LP
  72   69  If the \fIpath\fR argument is a directory and the filesystem does not support
  73   70  \fBunlink()\fR and \fBunlink()\fR on directories (for example, ZFS), the call
  74   71  will fail with \fBerrno\fR set to \fBEPERM\fR.
  75   72  .sp
  76   73  .LP
  77   74  Upon successful completion, \fBunlink()\fR and \fBunlinkat()\fR will mark for
  78   75  update the \fBst_ctime\fR and \fBst_mtime\fR fields of the parent directory.
  79   76  If the file's link count is not 0, the \fBst_ctime\fR field of the file will be
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