[Info-vax] Request description of UFS for VMS person

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

Bob Koehler <koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org> wrote:
 
>   This is an area in which every file system I've studied operates the
>   same.  There is no file delete primitive at the lowest levels of
>   the VMS or UNIX kernel, and I think not Windows, MS-DOS, or classis
>   MacOS, either.

Well, for unix there is no file delete operation.

There is unlink(), which removes a link to the file, which
may or may not be the last one.  I am not so sure how MS-DOS
did this, though.

-- glen