Delete a Non-empty directory Programmatically

[Raman]

HI All,


Please help me understand, Is there any standard C -library function
available that can delete non-empty the directory tree.

Thanks and Regards,
Raman Chalotra

 

[Joachim Schmitz]

Please help me understand, Is there any standard C -library function
available that can delete non-empty the directory tree.

No. The C-Standard doesn't even know about directories. Asking in
comp.unixprogrammer might help, but AFAIX POSIX doesn't have such a library
function either.

Bye, Jojo

 

[Keith Thompson]

Please help me understand, Is there any standard C -library function
available that can delete non-empty the directory tree.

No. Standard C has no concept of directories. Your operating system
probably does; try a system-specific newsgroup.

 

[santosh]

HI All,


Please help me understand, Is there any standard C -library function
available that can delete non-empty the directory tree.

No. Standard C does not have any concept of directories. To do this you
need to look at extensions provided by your implementation or by your
system to read and traverse directories. If your platform is UNIX or
Linux post to <and if you are developing for
Windows one possible group is
<news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32>

 

[Kenneth Brody]

No. The C-Standard doesn't even know about directories. Asking in
comp.unixprogrammer might help, but AFAIX POSIX doesn't have such a library
function either.

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My man pages state that the relevent functions are POSIX-compliant.
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[Raman]

No. Standard C has no concept of directories. Your operating system
probably does; try a system-specific newsgroup.

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Thanks for the reply.


Regards,
Raman Chalotra

 

[Joachim Schmitz]

<OT>
My man pages state that the relevent functions are POSIX-compliant.

There is no POSIX funtion for that. There is a set of functions though, that
if combined properly might do what the OP needs (and he's be given these in
comp.unix.pogrammer), but he asked for _a function_, singular.

</OT>

Bye, Jojo