LDP: Update original to LDP v3.79

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diff --git a/original/man3/remove.3 b/original/man3/remove.3
index 6e44dfc..9d03d29 100644 (file)
--- a/original/man3/remove.3
+++ b/original/man3/remove.3
@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
 .\" This file is derived from unlink.2, which has the following copyright:
 .\"
-.\" --snip--
 .\" This manpage is Copyright (C) 1992 Drew Eckhardt;
-.\"                               1993 Ian Jackson.
+.\"             and Copyright (C) 1993 Ian Jackson.
 .\"
+.\" Edited into remove.3 shape by:
+.\" Graeme W. Wilford (G.Wilford@ee.surrey.ac.uk) on 13th July 1994
+.\"
+.\" %%%LICENSE_START(VERBATIM)
 .\" Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
 .\" manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are
 .\" preserved on all copies.
@@ -23,12 +26,9 @@
 .\"
 .\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by
 .\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work.
-.\" --snip--
+.\" %%%LICENSE_END
 .\"
-.\" Edited into remove.3 shape by:
-.\" Graeme W. Wilford (G.Wilford@ee.surrey.ac.uk) on 13th July 1994
-.\"
-.TH REMOVE 3 2008-12-03 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH REMOVE 3 2014-08-19 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 remove \- remove a file or directory
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ remove \- remove a file or directory
 .BI "int remove(const char *" pathname );
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .BR remove ()
-deletes a name from the file system.
+deletes a name from the filesystem.
 It calls
 .BR unlink (2)
 for files, and
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ If the name referred to a symbolic link, the link is removed.
 
 If the name referred to a socket, FIFO, or device, the name is removed,
 but processes which have the object open may continue to use it.
-.SH "RETURN VALUE"
+.SH RETURN VALUE
 On success, zero is returned.
 On error, \-1 is returned, and
 .I errno
@@ -67,18 +67,23 @@ The errors that occur are those for
 .BR unlink (2)
 and
 .BR rmdir (2).
-.SH "CONFORMING TO"
-C89, C99, 4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001.
-.SH NOTES
-Under libc4 and libc5,
+.SH ATTRIBUTES
+.SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
+The
 .BR remove ()
-was an alias for
-.BR unlink (2)
-(and hence would not remove directories).
+function is thread-safe.
+.SH CONFORMING TO
+C89, C99, 4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001.
+.\" .SH NOTES
+.\" Under libc4 and libc5,
+.\" .BR remove ()
+.\" was an alias for
+.\" .BR unlink (2)
+.\" (and hence would not remove directories).
 .SH BUGS
 Infelicities in the protocol underlying NFS can cause the unexpected
 disappearance of files which are still being used.
-.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.SH SEE ALSO
 .BR rm (1),
 .BR unlink (1),
 .BR link (2),
@@ -89,3 +94,12 @@ disappearance of files which are still being used.
 .BR unlink (2),
 .BR mkfifo (3),
 .BR symlink (7)
+.SH COLOPHON
+This page is part of release 3.79 of the Linux
+.I man-pages
+project.
+A description of the project,
+information about reporting bugs,
+and the latest version of this page,
+can be found at
+\%http://www.kernel.org/doc/man\-pages/.