1 /* GLIB - Library of useful routines for C programming
2 * Copyright (C) 1995-1997 Peter Mattis, Spencer Kimball and Josh MacDonald
4 * gdir.c: Simplified wrapper around the DIRENT functions.
6 * Copyright 2001 Hans Breuer
8 * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
9 * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
10 * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
11 * version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
13 * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
14 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
15 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
16 * Lesser General Public License for more details.
18 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
19 * License along with this library; if not, write to the
20 * Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
21 * Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
26 #include <string.h> /* strerror, strcmp */
43 * @path: the path to the directory you are interested in
44 * @flags: Currently must be set to 0. Reserved for future use.
45 * @error: return location for a #GError, or %NULL.
46 * If non-%NULL, an error will be set if and only if
49 * Opens a directory for reading. The names of the files
50 * in the directory can then be retrieved using
53 * Return value: a newly allocated #GDir on success, %NULL on failure.
54 * If non-%NULL, you must free the result with g_dir_close()
55 * when you are finished with it.
58 g_dir_open (const gchar *path,
62 GDir *dir = g_new (GDir, 1);
64 dir->dir = opendir (path);
72 g_file_error_from_errno (errno),
73 _("Error opening directory '%s': %s"),
74 path, strerror (errno));
82 * @dir: a #GDir* created by g_dir_open()
84 * Retrieves the name of the next entry in the directory.
85 * The '.' and '..' entries are omitted.
87 * Return value: The entries name or %NULL if there are no
88 * more entries. The return value is owned by GLib and
89 * must not be modified or freed.
92 g_dir_read_name (GDir *dir)
96 g_return_val_if_fail (dir != NULL, NULL);
98 entry = readdir (dir->dir);
100 && (0 == strcmp (entry->d_name, ".") ||
101 0 == strcmp (entry->d_name, "..")))
102 entry = readdir (dir->dir);
104 return entry->d_name;
109 * @dir: a #GDir* created by g_dir_open()
111 * Resets the given directory. The next call to g_dir_read_name()
112 * will return the first entry again.
115 g_dir_rewind (GDir *dir)
117 g_return_if_fail (dir != NULL);
119 rewinddir (dir->dir);
124 * @dir: a #GDir* created by g_dir_open()
126 * Closes the directory and deallocates all related resources.
129 g_dir_close (GDir *dir)
133 g_return_val_if_fail (dir != NULL, FALSE);