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

[Bob Koehler]

In article <gsl1dn$bja$7 at naig.caltech.edu>, glen herrmannsfeldt <gah at ugcs.caltech.edu> writes:
> 
> 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.

   It may not be called delete, but it does the same thing.  It opens
   the file, marks it to go away, and closes it.  If there are no other
   references to that link then that link goes away.  If there are no
   other links and no other references then the file finally goes away.