Method
GioFiledelete
Description
Deletes a file. If the file
is a directory, it will only be
deleted if it is empty. This has the same semantics as g_unlink().
If file
doesn’t exist, G_IO_ERROR_NOT_FOUND
will be returned. This allows
for deletion to be implemented avoiding
time-of-check to time-of-use races:
g_autoptr(GError) local_error = NULL;
if (!g_file_delete (my_file, my_cancellable, &local_error) &&
!g_error_matches (local_error, G_IO_ERROR, G_IO_ERROR_NOT_FOUND))
{
// deletion failed for some reason other than the file not existing:
// so report the error
g_warning ("Failed to delete %s: %s",
g_file_peek_path (my_file), local_error->message);
}
If cancellable
is not NULL
, then the operation can be cancelled by
triggering the cancellable object from another thread. If the operation
was cancelled, the error G_IO_ERROR_CANCELLED
will be returned.
Parameters
cancellable |
GCancellable |
Optional |
|
The argument can be NULL . | |
The data is owned by the caller of the function. | |
error |
GError ** |
The return location for a GError* , or NULL . |