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+.\" This file is derived from unlink.2, which has the following copyright:
+.\"
+.\" --snip--
+.\" This manpage is Copyright (C) 1992 Drew Eckhardt;
+.\"                               1993 Ian Jackson.
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+.\" --snip--
+.\"
+.\" Edited into remove.3 shape by:
+.\" Graeme W. Wilford (G.Wilford@ee.surrey.ac.uk) on 13th July 1994
+.\"
+.TH REMOVE 3 1994-07-13 Linux "GNU"
+.SH NAME
+remove \- delete a name and possibly the file it refers to
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B #include <stdio.h>
+.sp
+.BI "int remove(const char *" pathname );
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.B remove
+deletes a name from the filesystem.
+It calls
+.I unlink
+for files, and
+.I rmdir
+for directories.
+
+If the removed name was the
+last link to a file and no processes have the file open the file is
+deleted and the space it was using is made available for reuse.
+
+If the name was the last link to a file but any processes still have
+the file open the file will remain in existence until the last file
+descriptor referring to it is closed.
+
+If the name referred to a symbolic link the link is removed.
+
+If the name referred to a socket, fifo or device the name for it is
+removed but processes which have the object open may continue to use
+it.
+.SH "RETURN VALUE"
+On success, zero is returned.  On error, \-1 is returned, and
+.I errno
+is set appropriately.
+.SH ERRORS
+The errors that occur are those for
+.BR unlink (2)
+and
+.BR rmdir (2).
+.SH "CONFORMING TO"
+ANSI C, SVID, AT&T, POSIX, X/OPEN, BSD 4.3
+.SH BUGS
+Infelicities in the protocol underlying NFS can cause the unexpected
+disappearance of files which are still being used.
+.SH NOTE
+Under libc4 and libc5,
+.B remove
+was an alias for unlink (and hence would not remove directories).
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.BR rm (1),
+.BR link (2),
+.BR mknod (2),
+.BR open (2),
+.BR rename (2),
+.BR rmdir (2),
+.BR unlink (2),
+.BR mkfifo (3),
+.BR unlink (8)