unlinkd

Macros
#define	UNLINK_BUF_LEN   1024

Functions
int	main (int, char *[])

Detailed Description

The unlink(2) system call can cause a process to block for a significant amount of time. Therefore we do not want to make unlink() calls from Squid. Instead we pass them to this external process.

Macro Definition Documentation

UNLINK_BUF_LEN

#define UNLINK_BUF_LEN   1024

Definition at line 34 of file unlinkd_daemon.cc.

Function Documentation

main()

int main	(	int	,
		char *	[]
	)

This is the unlinkd external process.

unlinkd receives the full path of any files to be removed from stdin, each on its own line.

The results for each file are printed to stdout in the order they were received

Parameters

argc	Ignored.
argv	Ignored.

Return values

ERR	An error occurred removing the file.
OK	The file has been removed.

Definition at line 54 of file unlinkd_daemon.cc.

References xopen().