remove
Description:
A wrapper for the POSIX remove function.
The remove function deletes a name from the filesystem.
See your C library manual for more details about how remove works on your system. On Unix, remove removes also
directories, as it calls unlink for files and
rmdir for directories. On Windows, although remove in the C library only works
for files, this function tries first remove and then if that fails rmdir, and
thus works for both files and directories. Note however, that on Windows, it is in general not possible to remove a file that is open to some
process, or mapped into memory.
If this function fails on Windows you can't infer too much from the errno value. rmdir is
tried regardless of what caused remove to fail. Any errno value set by remove will be overwritten by that set by
rmdir.
Parameters:
| filename |
a pathname in the GLib file name encoding (UTF-8 on Windows) |
Returns:
|
0 if the file was successfully removed, -1 if an error occurred |