Message-ID: <33BCF059.5254@xs4all.nl>
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 1997 14:45:14 +0200
From: "GRANULAB international B.V." <granulab AT xs4all DOT nl>
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: remove doesn't delet a file
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I have problems using the remove function. Here a sample of my code:


    _creat(datafile,0x00);
    fd = _open(datafile,O_WRONLY);    
    ....	
    /* ask user for file input, and write to file using _write() */

    if(_close(fd)!=0) printf("Error using closing file");

    /* get filesize of datafile */
    fp_filesize = fopen(datafile,"rb");
    filesize = filelength(fileno(fp_filesize));
    fclose(fp_filesize);

    /* delete file if there is no data in it */
    if (filesize == 0) {
    	error = remove(datafile);
    	printf(datafile,"%xd",error);
    }
	
The function _close doesn't give an error message. 
If no data is written to the file, the remove function doesn't remove
the file. The error code is 0xFFFFFFFD. When instead of _create(),
_open(), _close() and _write the functions fopen(), fclose() and fwrite
are used then the remove function works right.

Richard