NAME

io_uring_prep_unlinkat - prepare an unlinkat request

SYNOPSIS

#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

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

None

ERRORS

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

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).