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: string
a pathname in the GLib file name encoding (UTF-8 on Windows)
Returns number
0 if the file was successfully removed, -1 if an error occurred
A wrapper for the POSIX
remove()function. Theremove()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 callsunlink()for files andrmdir()for directories. On Windows, althoughremove()in the C library only works for files, this function tries firstremove()and then if that failsrmdir(), 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 causedremove()to fail. Any errno value set byremove()will be overwritten by that set byrmdir().