Why remove() doesn't remove (symbolic links)?

[Melinda Shore]

In article <1991May03.174126.13324 at lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> ghe at physics.orst.edu writes:
>The remove() system call fails to remove
>the sybolic links.

It should work as advertised.  I *strongly* recommend checking errno
after the system call fails either by using perror(), or looking at the
value of errno yourself.  You do want to know why remove() is failing,
don't you?
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