DPM_RM
Section: DPM Library Functions (3)
Updated: $Date: 2004/12/15 08:31:49 $
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NAME
dpm_rm - delete a set of files
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h>
#include "dpm_api.h"
int dpm_rm (int nbsurls,
char **surls,
int *nbreplies,
struct dpm_filestatus **filestatuses)
DESCRIPTION
dpm_rm
deletes a set of files from disk and from the name space.
The input arguments are:
- nbsurls
-
specifies the number of files belonging to the request.
- surls
-
specifies the array of file names.
The output arguments are:
- nbreplies
-
will be set to the number of replies in the array of file statuses.
- filestatuses
-
will be set to the address of an array of dpm_filestatus structures allocated
by the API. The client application is responsible for freeing the array when not
needed anymore.
struct dpm_filestatus {
char *surl;
int status;
char *errstring;
};
RETURN VALUE
This routine returns 0 if the operation was successful or -1 if the operation
failed. In the latter case,
serrno
is set appropriately.
ERRORS
- EFAULT
-
surls,
nbreplies
or
filestatuses
is a NULL pointer.
- ENOMEM
-
Memory could not be allocated for marshalling the request.
- EINVAL
-
nbsurls
is not strictly positive or all file requests have errors.
- SENOSHOST
-
Host unknown.
- SEINTERNAL
-
Database error.
- SECOMERR
-
Communication error.