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+/* Remove a file or directory.
+ Copyright (C) 2009-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+ This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+ (at your option) any later version.
+
+ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
+
+/* written by Eric Blake */
+
+#include <config.h>
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+
+#undef remove
+
+/* Remove NAME from the file system. This works around C89 platforms
+ that don't handle directories like POSIX requires; it also works
+ around Solaris 9 bugs with trailing slash. */
+int
+rpl_remove (char const *name)
+{
+ /* It is faster to just try rmdir, and fall back on unlink, than it
+ is to use lstat to see what we are about to remove. Technically,
+ it is more likely that we want unlink, not rmdir, but we cannot
+ guarantee the safety of unlink on directories. Trailing slash
+ bugs are handled by our rmdir and unlink wrappers. */
+ int result = rmdir (name);
+ if (result && errno == ENOTDIR)
+ result = unlink (name);
+ return result;
+}