[Tfug] How do you remove a file from a USB vfat - in c

[Nate]

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Try unlink() in unistd.h

http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?unlink+2

Nate

jblais wrote:
> Hello
> 
> this is another of my dumb questions
> 
> I'm trying to use a USB sick with vfat -- sorry, it has to be seen
> eventually by winders.
> 
> The issue is this.  In C I just do remove("filename");  and for Linux (ext2
> ?) the file length is set to 0, and the OS does the rest.  For the vfat
> partition, just setting the length to 0 doesn't do the trick.  Initially the
> file "looks" to have been removed, but when I re-mount the USB stick, it's
> there as a 0 length file, which can get copied to my local Linux drive, and
> from there I need to deal with the ugliness that's it's 0 length.  I guess I
> could add a bunch of checks for 0 length in everything, like listing folder
> contents, selecting files, opening files, deleting files.. But eventually I
> do need to literally remove the file...
> 
> I did a google thing, and got mostly a bunch of command line stuff, which
> may work, but I'd like to know how to do it from c --
> 
> Anyway - thanks for any help..
> 
> Joe
> 
> 
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