DPM_RM(3)
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.