Archive for September, 2009
Deleting a file/directory
How do you delete a file or directory1 in Win32/64 ? You have primarily three options – DeleteFile, RemoveDirectory MoveFileEx (…, MOVEFILE_DELAY_UNTIL_REBOOT…) CreateFile (…, FILE_FLAG_DELETE_ON_CLOSE…) followed by CloseHandle First of all DeleteFile cannot be used to delete a directory, you are supposed to use RemoveDirectory instead. If you pass a directory path to DeleteFile, the [...]
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