Miscellaneous File Operations
int remove(const char *filename);
int rename(const char *old, const char *new);
The functions remove and rename allow a program to perform basic tile
management operations. Unlike most other functions in this section, remove and
rename work with file names instead of file pointers. Both
functions return zero if they succeed and a nonzero value if they fail, remove
deletes a file:
remove("foo");
/* deletes the file named "foo" */
If a
program uses fopen (instead of tmpfile) to create a temporary file, it can use
remove to delete the file before the program terminates. Be sure that the file
to be removed has been closed; the effect of removing a file that's currently
open is implementation-defined.
rename changes the name of a file:
rename("foo",
"bar"); /* renames
"foo" to "bar" */
rename is
handy for renaming a temporary file created using fopen if a program should
decide to make it permanent. If a file with the new name already exists, the
effect is implementation-defined.
If the tile to be renamed is open, be sure to
close it before calling rename; the function may fail if asked to rename an
open file.
No comments:
Post a Comment