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Add doc comments about Windows restrictions on renaming and removing.

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2004-12-11  Tor Lillqvist  <tml@iki.fi>

	* glib/gstdio.c (g_rename, g_unlink, g_remove): Add doc comments
	about Windows restrictions on renaming and removing.

	(g_remove): Mimic POSIX remove() on Windows: Try also to rmdir if
	removal as a file fails. Document this.

	* glib/gstdio.h: Clarify comment about file name encoding on
	Windows.
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2004-12-11 Tor Lillqvist <tml@iki.fi>
* glib/gstdio.c (g_rename, g_unlink, g_remove): Add doc comments
about Windows restrictions on renaming and removing.
(g_remove): Mimic POSIX remove() on Windows: Try also to rmdir if
removal as a file fails. Document this.
* glib/gstdio.h: Clarify comment about file name encoding on
Windows.
* glib/gspawn-win32.c: Fix #157255. Also some refactoring of this
still very ugly source file.

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2004-12-11 Tor Lillqvist <tml@iki.fi>
* glib/gstdio.c (g_rename, g_unlink, g_remove): Add doc comments
about Windows restrictions on renaming and removing.
(g_remove): Mimic POSIX remove() on Windows: Try also to rmdir if
removal as a file fails. Document this.
* glib/gstdio.h: Clarify comment about file name encoding on
Windows.
* glib/gspawn-win32.c: Fix #157255. Also some refactoring of this
still very ugly source file.

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ChangeLog.pre-2-12
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2004-12-11 Tor Lillqvist <tml@iki.fi>
* glib/gstdio.c (g_rename, g_unlink, g_remove): Add doc comments
about Windows restrictions on renaming and removing.
(g_remove): Mimic POSIX remove() on Windows: Try also to rmdir if
removal as a file fails. Document this.
* glib/gstdio.h: Clarify comment about file name encoding on
Windows.
* glib/gspawn-win32.c: Fix #157255. Also some refactoring of this
still very ugly source file.

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ChangeLog.pre-2-6
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2004-12-11 Tor Lillqvist <tml@iki.fi>
* glib/gstdio.c (g_rename, g_unlink, g_remove): Add doc comments
about Windows restrictions on renaming and removing.
(g_remove): Mimic POSIX remove() on Windows: Try also to rmdir if
removal as a file fails. Document this.
* glib/gstdio.h: Clarify comment about file name encoding on
Windows.
* glib/gspawn-win32.c: Fix #157255. Also some refactoring of this
still very ugly source file.

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ChangeLog.pre-2-8
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2004-12-11 Tor Lillqvist <tml@iki.fi>
* glib/gstdio.c (g_rename, g_unlink, g_remove): Add doc comments
about Windows restrictions on renaming and removing.
(g_remove): Mimic POSIX remove() on Windows: Try also to rmdir if
removal as a file fails. Document this.
* glib/gstdio.h: Clarify comment about file name encoding on
Windows.
* glib/gspawn-win32.c: Fix #157255. Also some refactoring of this
still very ugly source file.

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@ -106,7 +106,11 @@ g_open (const gchar *filename,
* A wrapper for the POSIX rename() function. The rename() function
* renames a file, moving it between directories if required.
*
* See the C library manual for more details about rename().
* See your C library manual for more details about how rename() works
* on your system. Note in particular that on Windows, it is in
* general not possible to rename a file if a file with the new name
* already exists. Also it is not possible in general to rename an
* open file.
*
* Returns: 0 if the renaming succeeded, -1 if an error occurred
*
@ -283,9 +287,11 @@ g_lstat (const gchar *filename,
* file and no processes have it opened, the diskspace occupied by the
* file is freed.
*
* See the C library manual for more details about unlink().
* See your C library manual for more details about unlink(). Note
* that on Windows, it is in general not possible to delete files that
* are open to some process, or mapped into memory.
*
* Returns: 0 if the directory was successfully created, -1 if an error
* Returns: 0 if the name was successfully deleted, -1 if an error
* occurred
*
* Since: 2.6
@ -325,13 +331,19 @@ g_unlink (const gchar *filename)
* g_remove:
* @filename: a pathname in the GLib file name encoding
*
* A wrapper for the POSIX remove() function. The remove() function
* deletes a name from the filesystem. It calls unlink() for files
* and rmdir() for directories.
* A wrapper for the POSIX remove() function. The remove() function
* deletes a name from the filesystem.
*
* See the C library manual for more details about remove().
* See your C library manual for more details about how remove() works
* on your system. On Unix, remove() removes also directories, as it
* calls unlink() for files and rmdir() for directories. On Windows,
* although remove() in the C library only works for files, this
* function tries both remove() and rmdir(), and thus works like on
* Unix. Note however, that on Windows, it is in general not possible
* to remove a file that is open to some process, or mapped into
* memory.
*
* Returns: 0 if the directory was successfully created, -1 if an error
* Returns: 0 if the file was successfully removed, -1 if an error
* occurred
*
* Since: 2.6
@ -343,8 +355,13 @@ g_remove (const gchar *filename)
if (G_WIN32_HAVE_WIDECHAR_API ())
{
wchar_t *wfilename = g_utf8_to_utf16 (filename, -1, NULL, NULL, NULL);
int retval = _wremove (wfilename);
int save_errno = errno;
int retval;
int save_errno;
retval = _wremove (wfilename);
if (retval == -1)
retval = _wrmdir (wfilename);
save_errno = errno;
g_free (wfilename);
@ -354,8 +371,13 @@ g_remove (const gchar *filename)
else
{
gchar *cp_filename = g_locale_from_utf8 (filename, -1, NULL, NULL, NULL);
int retval = remove (cp_filename);
int save_errno = errno;
int retval;
int save_errno;
retval = remove (cp_filename);
if (retval == -1)
retval = rmdir (cp_filename);
save_errno = errno;
g_free (cp_filename);

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* what they are doing and no exchange of files with others this would
* be a well-defined encoding, preferrably UTF-8. On Windows, the
* pathname is always in UTF-8, even if that is not the on-disk
* encoding or the encoding used by the Win32 API.
* encoding, and not the encoding accepted by the C library or Win32
* API.
*/
int g_open (const gchar *filename,