Method

GioFiledelete

Declaration

gboolean
g_file_delete (
  GFile* file,
  GCancellable* cancellable,
  GError** error
)

Description

Deletes a file. If the file is a directory, it will only be deleted if it is empty. This has the same semantics as g_unlink().

If file doesn’t exist, G_IO_ERROR_NOT_FOUND will be returned. This allows for deletion to be implemented avoiding time-of-check to time-of-use races:

g_autoptr(GError) local_error = NULL;
if (!g_file_delete (my_file, my_cancellable, &local_error) &&
    !g_error_matches (local_error, G_IO_ERROR, G_IO_ERROR_NOT_FOUND))
  {
    // deletion failed for some reason other than the file not existing:
    // so report the error
    g_warning ("Failed to delete %s: %s",
               g_file_peek_path (my_file), local_error->message);
  }

If cancellable is not NULL, then the operation can be cancelled by triggering the cancellable object from another thread. If the operation was cancelled, the error G_IO_ERROR_CANCELLED will be returned.

Parameters

cancellable

Type: GCancellable

Optional GCancellable object, NULL to ignore.

The argument can be NULL.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.

error

Type: GError **

The return location for a recoverable error.

The argument can be NULL.

If the return location is not NULL, then you must initialize it to a NULL GError*.

The argument will left initialized to NULL by the method if there are no errors.

In case of error, the argument will be set to a newly allocated GError; the caller will take ownership of the data, and be responsible for freeing it.

Return value

Type: gboolean

TRUE if the file was deleted. FALSE otherwise.