removing files

[Anthony]

Hi,

Removing files seems to be rather clumsy in C (not C++).

I am trying next piece of code to delete a file (under W32);

int errno;
errno = remove("FSelCancelled");

After exiting the app the file is still on the system, so not deleted at all.

If I check the return code, I see value for errno = -1.

On the several doc. pags for remove I see return codes 7 (EBIG), 13 (EACCESS) , etc, etc. till 18 (EXDEV), but not an error code -1.

So, what's wrong ?

Thanks.
Anthony

[Pieter Droogendijk]

On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 10:39:08 +0200, Anthony wrote:

Hi,

Removing files seems to be rather clumsy in C (not C++).

I am trying next piece of code to delete a file (under W32);

int errno;
errno = remove("FSelCancelled");

After exiting the app the file is still on the system, so not deleted
at all.

If I check the return code, I see value for errno = -1.

On the several doc. pags for remove I see return codes 7 (EBIG), 13
(EACCESS) , etc, etc. till 18 (EXDEV), but not an error code -1.

So, what's wrong ?

Thanks.
Anthony

You're mixing up return value and error code. I'll quote the man page:
RETURN VALUE
On success, zero is returned. On error, -1 is returned, and
errno is set appropriately.

if remove() returns -1, check errno. You can use perror() to print the
last error in a human-readable way. These human-readable strings are
stored in *sys_errlist[], defined in errno.h, if you have something
against perror().

#include <stdio.h>
int main ()
{
if (remove ("somefile") < -1) perror ("removing file");
else printf ("i'm happy\n");
}

--
main(int c,char*k,char*s){c>0?main(0,"adceoX$_k6][^hn","-7\
0#05&'40$.6'+).3+1%30"),puts(""):*s?c=!c?-*s:(putchar(45),c
),putchar(main(c,k+=*s-c*-1,s+1)):(s=0);return!s?10:10+*k;}

[Martin Ambuhl]

"Anthony" <An*****@work.nl> wrote (11 Jul 2003) in news:bem06m$6dt$1
@sunrise.wldelft.nl / comp.lang.c:

Hi,

Okay, thanks for that info.

Small problem that still remains, is that I have a GUI based
app, what means that I don't see the printed error message
from the perror function.

Is there any way to use a proper function, returning an
error string telling me what's wrong.
strerror().
I can't believe that someone who doesn't know about perror and
strerror has the gall to post Removing files seems to be rather clumsy in C (not C++).>

Knowing something about C should be a requirement for people who want
to complain about it.


--
Martin Ambuhl
Returning soon to the
Fourth Largest City in America

[Darrell Grainger]

On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Anthony wrote:

Hi,

Removing files seems to be rather clumsy in C (not C++).

I am trying next piece of code to delete a file (under W32);

int errno;
errno = remove("FSelCancelled");

After exiting the app the file is still on the system, so not deleted at all.

If I check the return code, I see value for errno = -1.
You overwrote the errno variable with the result of remove(). Try this:

int result;
result = remove("FSelCancelled");
if(result == -1) {
printf("errno: %d\n", errno);
}
On the several doc. pags for remove I see return codes 7 (EBIG), 13 (EACCESS) , etc, etc. till 18 (EXDEV), but not an error code -1.

So, what's wrong ?

Thanks.
Anthony

--
main(){int j=1234;char t[]=":@abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.\n",*i=
"iqgbgxmdbjlgdv.lksrqek.n";char *strchr(const char *,int);while(
*i){j+=strchr(t,*i++)-t;j%=sizeof t-1;putchar(t[j]);} return 0;}

[Jack Klein]

On 11 Jul 2003 13:54:10 GMT, da*****@cs.toronto.edu (Darrell Grainger)
wrote in comp.lang.c:

On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Anthony wrote:

Hi,

Removing files seems to be rather clumsy in C (not C++).

I am trying next piece of code to delete a file (under W32);

int errno;
errno = remove("FSelCancelled");

After exiting the app the file is still on the system, so not deleted at all.

If I check the return code, I see value for errno = -1.

You overwrote the errno variable with the result of remove(). Try this:

int result;
result = remove("FSelCancelled");
if(result == -1) {
printf("errno: %d\n", errno);
}

The standard does not require the remove function to put a value in
errno.

--
Jack Klein
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