[ Version ( since = "2.6" ) ]
[ CCode ( cname = "g_remove" ) ]
public int remove (string filename)
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.
| filename |
a pathname in the GLib file name encoding (UTF-8 on Windows) |
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0 if the file was successfully removed, -1 if an error occurred |