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.
27 #include <string.h> /* strcmp */
30 #include <sys/types.h>
47 * @path: the path to the directory you are interested in
48 * @flags: Currently must be set to 0. Reserved for future use.
49 * @error: return location for a #GError, or %NULL.
50 * If non-%NULL, an error will be set if and only if
53 * Opens a directory for reading. The names of the files
54 * in the directory can then be retrieved using
57 * Return value: a newly allocated #GDir on success, %NULL on failure.
58 * If non-%NULL, you must free the result with g_dir_close()
59 * when you are finished with it.
62 g_dir_open (const gchar *path,
69 g_return_val_if_fail (path != NULL, NULL);
71 dir = g_new (GDir, 1);
73 dir->dir = opendir (path);
79 utf8_path = g_filename_to_utf8 (path, -1,
83 g_file_error_from_errno (errno),
84 _("Error opening directory '%s': %s"),
85 utf8_path, g_strerror (errno));
95 * @dir: a #GDir* created by g_dir_open()
97 * Retrieves the name of the next entry in the directory.
98 * The '.' and '..' entries are omitted. The returned name is in
99 * the encoding used for filenames. Use g_filename_to_utf8() to
100 * convert it to UTF-8.
102 * Return value: The entries name or %NULL if there are no
103 * more entries. The return value is owned by GLib and
104 * must not be modified or freed.
106 G_CONST_RETURN gchar*
107 g_dir_read_name (GDir *dir)
109 struct dirent *entry;
111 g_return_val_if_fail (dir != NULL, NULL);
113 entry = readdir (dir->dir);
115 && (0 == strcmp (entry->d_name, ".") ||
116 0 == strcmp (entry->d_name, "..")))
117 entry = readdir (dir->dir);
120 return entry->d_name;
127 * @dir: a #GDir* created by g_dir_open()
129 * Resets the given directory. The next call to g_dir_read_name()
130 * will return the first entry again.
133 g_dir_rewind (GDir *dir)
135 g_return_if_fail (dir != NULL);
137 rewinddir (dir->dir);
142 * @dir: a #GDir* created by g_dir_open()
144 * Closes the directory and deallocates all related resources.
147 g_dir_close (GDir *dir)
149 g_return_if_fail (dir != NULL);