io_uring_prep_unlinkat(3) — Linux manual page

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io_uring_prep_unlinkat(3)    liburing Manual   io_uring_prep_unlinkat(3)

NAME         top

       io_uring_prep_unlinkat - prepare an unlinkat request

SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <fcntl.h>
       #include <unistd.h>
       #include <liburing.h>

       void io_uring_prep_unlinkat(struct io_uring_sqe *sqe,
                                   int dirfd,
                                   const char *path,
                                   int flags);

       void io_uring_prep_unlink(struct io_uring_sqe *sqe,
                                 const char *path,
                                 int flags);

DESCRIPTION         top

       The io_uring_prep_unlinkat(3) function prepares an unlinkat
       request. The submission queue entry sqe is setup to use the
       directory file descriptor pointed to by dirfd to start an
       unlinkat operation on the path identified by path and using the
       flags given in flags.

       The io_uring_prep_unlink(3) function prepares an unlink request.
       The submission queue entry sqe is setup to start an unlinkat
       operation on the path identified by path relative to the current
       working directory and using the flags given in flags.

       These functions prepare an async unlinkat(2) or unlink(2)
       request. See those man pages for details.

RETURN VALUE         top

       None

ERRORS         top

       The CQE res field will contain the result of the operation. See
       the related man page for details on possible values. Note that
       where synchronous system calls will return -1 on failure and set
       errno to the actual error value, io_uring never uses errno.
       Instead it returns the negated errno directly in the CQE res
       field.

NOTES         top

       As with any request that passes in data in a struct, that data
       must remain valid until the request has been successfully
       submitted. It need not remain valid until completion. Once a
       request has been submitted, the in-kernel state is stable. Very
       early kernels (5.4 and earlier) required state to be stable until
       the completion occurred. Applications can test for this behavior
       by inspecting the IORING_FEAT_SUBMIT_STABLE flag passed back from
       io_uring_queue_init_params(3).

SEE ALSO         top

       io_uring_get_sqe(3), io_uring_submit(3), unlinkat(2), unlink(2)

COLOPHON         top

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