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From: sef@Kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: Bug in 386bsd 0.2 (patches up to 110)
Date: 17 Mar 1993 14:25:43 -0800
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In article <1o32kdINNide@ftp.uu.net> sef@Kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
>And so it was. I tested it, and found the problem. In
>/usr/src/usr.bin/ld/ld.c, around line 3124, it does:
>
> (void)unlink (output_filename);
>
>I think you can just delete that, or you can change it to do:
>
> if (stat (output_filename, &statbuf) != -1) {
> if (S_ISREG(statbuf.st_mode))
> (void) unlink (output_filename);
> }
You can still just remove the unlink(), or you can do this:
if (lstat (output_filename, &stabuf) != -1) {
if (!S_ISDIR(statbuf.st_mode))
(void) unlink (output_filename);
}
The unlink() is looking easier and easier all the time 8-).
I still think I want it to remove files, though.