Function

GLibrmdir

since: 2.6

Declaration [src] 

int
g_rmdir (
  const gchar* filename
)

Description [src]

A wrapper for the POSIX rmdir() function. The rmdir() function deletes a directory from the filesystem.

See your C library manual for more details about how rmdir() works on your system.

Available since: 2.6

Parameters

filename

Type: const gchar*

A pathname in the GLib file name encoding (UTF-8 on Windows).

The data is owned by the caller of the function.
The value is a platform-native string, using the preferred OS encoding on Unix and UTF-8 on Windows.

Return value

Type: int

0 if the directory was successfully removed, -1 if an error occurred.