Revision [136]
This is an old revision of dirDelete made by JohnMcIntosh on 2008-10-15 02:27:34.
sqInt dir_Delete(char *pathString, sqInt pathStringLength)
Parms:
pathString directory path name to create in image encoding
pathStringLength length of name
return: return 1 for success, 0 to make primitive fail.
From: Interpreter, filePlugin
Why:
to delete a directory
Responsibility:
Delete the directory entry if the path name encoded is correct and within file system rules.
Platform must ensure length of path does not violate some internal path length rule for the operating system
MacIntosh
os-9/OSXCarbon
Clone of unix, but it works with Finder Aliases.
Cocoa:
TBD
iPhone
Unix
Uses rmdir, so the directory must be empty. Also has to invalidate the directory being iterated over by dir_Lookup and close it if needbe.
Windows
BUGS