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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to delete files within C programs
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Date: 1 May 1996 13:46:30 +0100
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Oum-El-Kheir Benkahla (Oum-El-Kheir.Benkahla@imag.fr) wrote:
: I am searching a way for deleting files within C programs. I tried the
: exec command for executing rm (execlp("rm", "rm", "myfile", 0), which
: indeed deletes myfile but the problem here is that the exec command
: doesn't return on success.
: Is there another way to do this and return to the calling process ?
: Thank you in advance.
: OB
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