* @cancellable: optional #GCancellable object, %NULL to ignore.
* @error: a #GError, or %NULL
*
- * Creates a directory.
+ * Creates a directory. Note that this will only create a child directory of
+ * the immediate parent directory of the path or URI given by the #GFile. To
+ * recursively create directories, see g_file_make_directory_with_parents().
+ * This function will fail if the parent directory does not exist, setting
+ * @error to %G_IO_ERROR_NOT_FOUND. If the file system doesn't support creating
+ * directories, this function will fail, setting @error to
+ * %G_IO_ERROR_NOT_SUPPORTED.
*
* If @cancellable is not %NULL, then the operation can be cancelled by
* triggering the cancellable object from another thread. If the operation
}
/**
+ * g_file_make_directory_with_parents:
+ * @file: input #GFile.
+ * @cancellable: optional #GCancellable object, %NULL to ignore.
+ * @error: a #GError, or %NULL
+ *
+ * Creates a directory and any parent directories that may not exist similar to
+ * 'mkdir -p'. If the file system does not support creating directories, this
+ * function will fail, setting @error to %G_IO_ERROR_NOT_SUPPORTED.
+ *
+ * If @cancellable is not %NULL, then the operation can be cancelled by
+ * triggering the cancellable object from another thread. If the operation
+ * was cancelled, the error %G_IO_ERROR_CANCELLED will be returned.
+ *
+ * Returns: %TRUE if all directories have been successfully created, %FALSE
+ * otherwise.
+ *
+ * Since: 2.18
+ **/
+gboolean
+g_file_make_directory_with_parents (GFile *file,
+ GCancellable *cancellable,
+ GError **error)
+{
+ gboolean result;
+ GFile *parent_file, *work_file;
+ GList *list = NULL, *l;
+ GError *my_error = NULL;
+
+ if (g_cancellable_set_error_if_cancelled (cancellable, error))
+ return FALSE;
+
+ result = g_file_make_directory (file, cancellable, &my_error);
+ if (result || my_error->code != G_IO_ERROR_NOT_FOUND)
+ {
+ if (my_error)
+ g_propagate_error (error, my_error);
+ return result;
+ }
+
+ work_file = file;
+
+ while (!result && my_error->code == G_IO_ERROR_NOT_FOUND)
+ {
+ g_clear_error (&my_error);
+
+ parent_file = g_file_get_parent (work_file);
+ if (parent_file == NULL)
+ break;
+ result = g_file_make_directory (parent_file, cancellable, &my_error);
+
+ if (!result && my_error->code == G_IO_ERROR_NOT_FOUND)
+ list = g_list_prepend (list, parent_file);
+
+ work_file = parent_file;
+ }
+
+ for (l = list; result && l; l = l->next)
+ {
+ result = g_file_make_directory ((GFile *) l->data, cancellable, &my_error);
+ }
+
+ /* Clean up */
+ while (list != NULL)
+ {
+ g_object_unref ((GFile *) list->data);
+ list = g_list_remove (list, list->data);
+ }
+
+ if (!result)
+ {
+ g_propagate_error (error, my_error);
+ return result;
+ }
+
+ return g_file_make_directory (file, cancellable, error);
+}
+
+/**
* g_file_make_symbolic_link:
* @file: input #GFile.
* @symlink_value: a string with the value of the new symlink.