Expand the docs a bit. (#317775, Søren Sandmann)
[platform/upstream/glib.git] / glib / gfileutils.h
1 /* gfileutils.h - File utility functions
2  *
3  *  Copyright 2000 Red Hat, Inc.
4  *
5  * GLib is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
6  * under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as
7  * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
8  * License, or (at your option) any later version.
9  *
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12  * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
13  * Lesser General Public License for more details.
14  *
15  * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
16  * License along with GLib; see the file COPYING.LIB.  If not,
17  * write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
18  *   Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
19  */
20
21 #ifndef __G_FILEUTILS_H__
22 #define __G_FILEUTILS_H__
23
24 #include <glib/gerror.h>
25
26 G_BEGIN_DECLS
27
28 #define G_FILE_ERROR g_file_error_quark ()
29
30 typedef enum
31 {
32   G_FILE_ERROR_EXIST,
33   G_FILE_ERROR_ISDIR,
34   G_FILE_ERROR_ACCES,
35   G_FILE_ERROR_NAMETOOLONG,
36   G_FILE_ERROR_NOENT,
37   G_FILE_ERROR_NOTDIR,
38   G_FILE_ERROR_NXIO,
39   G_FILE_ERROR_NODEV,
40   G_FILE_ERROR_ROFS,
41   G_FILE_ERROR_TXTBSY,
42   G_FILE_ERROR_FAULT,
43   G_FILE_ERROR_LOOP,
44   G_FILE_ERROR_NOSPC,
45   G_FILE_ERROR_NOMEM,
46   G_FILE_ERROR_MFILE,
47   G_FILE_ERROR_NFILE,
48   G_FILE_ERROR_BADF,
49   G_FILE_ERROR_INVAL,
50   G_FILE_ERROR_PIPE,
51   G_FILE_ERROR_AGAIN,
52   G_FILE_ERROR_INTR,
53   G_FILE_ERROR_IO,
54   G_FILE_ERROR_PERM,
55   G_FILE_ERROR_NOSYS,
56   G_FILE_ERROR_FAILED
57 } GFileError;
58
59 /* For backward-compat reasons, these are synced to an old 
60  * anonymous enum in libgnome. But don't use that enum
61  * in new code.
62  */
63 typedef enum
64 {
65   G_FILE_TEST_IS_REGULAR    = 1 << 0,
66   G_FILE_TEST_IS_SYMLINK    = 1 << 1,
67   G_FILE_TEST_IS_DIR        = 1 << 2,
68   G_FILE_TEST_IS_EXECUTABLE = 1 << 3,
69   G_FILE_TEST_EXISTS        = 1 << 4
70 } GFileTest;
71
72 GQuark     g_file_error_quark      (void);
73 /* So other code can generate a GFileError */
74 GFileError g_file_error_from_errno (gint err_no);
75
76 #ifdef G_OS_WIN32
77 #define g_file_test g_file_test_utf8
78 #define g_file_get_contents g_file_get_contents_utf8
79 #define g_mkstemp g_mkstemp_utf8
80 #define g_file_open_tmp g_file_open_tmp_utf8
81 #endif
82
83 gboolean g_file_test         (const gchar  *filename,
84                               GFileTest     test);
85 gboolean g_file_get_contents (const gchar  *filename,
86                               gchar       **contents,
87                               gsize        *length,    
88                               GError      **error);
89 gboolean g_file_set_contents (const gchar *filename,
90                               const gchar *contents,
91                               gssize         length,
92                               GError       **error);
93 gchar   *g_file_read_link    (const gchar  *filename,
94                               GError      **error);
95
96 /* Wrapper / workalike for mkstemp() */
97 gint    g_mkstemp            (gchar        *tmpl);
98
99 /* Wrapper for g_mkstemp */
100 gint    g_file_open_tmp      (const gchar  *tmpl,
101                               gchar       **name_used,
102                               GError      **error);
103
104 gchar *g_build_path     (const gchar *separator,
105                          const gchar *first_element,
106                          ...) G_GNUC_MALLOC G_GNUC_NULL_TERMINATED;
107 gchar *g_build_pathv    (const gchar  *separator,
108                          gchar       **args) G_GNUC_MALLOC;
109
110 gchar *g_build_filename (const gchar *first_element,
111                          ...) G_GNUC_MALLOC G_GNUC_NULL_TERMINATED;
112 gchar *g_build_filenamev (gchar      **args) G_GNUC_MALLOC;
113
114 int    g_mkdir_with_parents (const gchar *pathname,
115                              int          mode);
116
117 G_END_DECLS
118
119 #endif /* __G_FILEUTILS_H__ */