.\"Copyright 2006-2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
.\" Copyright (c) 1996 Thinking Machines Corporation
.TH MPI_File_delete 3 "Dec 08, 2009" "1.4" "Open MPI"
.SH NAME
\fBMPI_File_delete\fP \- Deletes a file.

.SH SYNTAX
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C Syntax
    #include <mpi.h>
    int MPI_File_delete(char \fI*filename\fP, MPI_Info \fIinfo\fP)

Fortran Syntax
    INCLUDE 'mpif.h'
    MPI_FILE_DELETE(\fIFILENAME\fP, \fIINFO\fP, \fIIERROR\fP)
   	 CHARACTER*(*) \fIFILENAME\fP
    	 INTEGER \fIINFO, IERROR\fP

.SH C++ Syntax
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#include <mpi.h>
static void MPI::File::Delete(const char* \fIfilename\fP, const 
	MPI::Info& \fIinfo\fP)

.SH INPUT PARAMETERS
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.TP 1i
filename
Name of file to delete (string).
.TP 1i
info
Info object (handle). 

.SH OUTPUT PARAMETER
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.TP 1i
IERROR
Fortran only: Error status (integer). 

.SH DESCRIPTION
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MPI_File_delete deletes the file identified by the file name 
\fIfilename\fP, provided it is not currently open by any process. It is an error to delete the file with MPI_File_delete if some process has it open, but MPI_File_delete does not check this. If the file does not exist, MPI_File_delete returns an error in the class MPI_ERR_NO_SUCH_FILE.
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.SH ERRORS
Almost all MPI routines return an error value; C routines as the value of the function and Fortran routines in the last argument. C++ functions do not return errors. If the default error handler is set to MPI::ERRORS_THROW_EXCEPTIONS, then on error the C++ exception mechanism will be used to throw an MPI:Exception object.
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Before the error value is returned, the current MPI error handler is
called. For MPI I/O function errors, the default error handler is set to MPI_ERRORS_RETURN. The error handler may be changed with MPI_File_set_errhandler; the predefined error handler MPI_ERRORS_ARE_FATAL may be used to make I/O errors fatal. Note that MPI does not guarantee that an MPI program can continue past an error.