Re: Help on g_spwan_async

[Tristan Van Berkom <vantr touchtunes com>]

you could write a small `rm -rf` function
something like:

void rm(path) {
  DIR = opendir(path)
  while(readdir(DIR)) {
    if (is a dir) {
      rm(struct dirent.directory name); // call this same func
    } else {
      unlink();
    }
  }
}

I think this is all portable.
        -Tristan

Harring Figueiredo wrote:
> Folks,
>
>  I have the following code:
>
>     exe_string = g_strdup_printf("%s %s", rm_cmd, path);
>     g_print("Executing command: %s\n", exe_string);
>     if ( g_shell_parse_argv(exe_string ,&i, &exe_cmd , &error) != TRUE) {
>         *err = g_strdup(error->message);
>         g_error_free(error);
>         return FALSE;
>     }
>     ret_val = g_spawn_async_with_pipes(NULL, exe_cmd ,NULL,
>             G_SPAWN_LEAVE_DESCRIPTORS_OPEN | G_SPAWN_SEARCH_PATH,
>             NULL, NULL, &pid, NULL, NULL, NULL, &error);
>
>   rm_cmd = "deltree /Y" and path= "I:\somepath\somedir"
>
>  When I run the command on windowze, I can see the DOS console windows poping
> up and desapearing; however, the directory never gets deleted.
>
>   IF I do an exact copy andpaty of the command that I output with g_print
> above, the directory gets deleted.
>
>   What am I doing wrong here ?
>
> NOTE: I am using this code because I need to delete anentire directory
> structure on Windows and the remove() calls is only working for files -- I
> guess it has a bug reported on the remove(3) man pages.
> If anyone has a better suggestion that the code above, please drop me a line.
>
> Note 2: compiled with mingwin gcc 2.95.3 (Windows binary from Tor's site.)
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Harring.
>
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