[Info-vax] Request description of UFS for VMS person
Arne Vajhøj
arne at vajhoej.dk
Tue Apr 21 22:02:23 EDT 2009
glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
> 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.
INT 21h / AH=41h
But DOS is a bit different, because the concurrency problem
is let us call it "limited".
Arne
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