Re: File removal

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 10:01 +0100, Matthias Kaeppler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed that Nautilus calls gnome_vfs_async_xfer() in its functions 
> for removing files. How does this work? I'm not talking about moving 
> files to the trash bin, but "real" deletion.

If you pass GNOME_VFS_XFER_DELETE_ITEMS to gnome_vfs_xfer you it deletes
the file. *_xfer is really a generic api for all sorts of things.

> Ain't there any gnome_vfs_remove() functions?

There is gnome_vfs_unlink() and gnome_vfs_unlink_from_uri() which are
the low-level versions of deletion.

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