From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Best way to implement DELTREE
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 18:56:07 +0200
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Ben Davis wrote:
> 
> Is there a function in libc which will do a DELTREE for me for my uninstall
> program? If not, what is the best way to implement one?

You can use the directory-traversal functions provided in the library.  The
function `ftw' is portable to Unix systems; the function `__file_tree_walk'
is DJGPP-specific, but is usually much faster.  Look them up in the library
docs.