Seth Nickell


    
  

Christophe Fergeau


    
  

for GnomeVFS 2.11.90

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Table of Contents

Introduction to GnomeVFS
Uses and Purpose
User's Perspective
Developer's Perspective
A Gentle Programming Primer
Simple Sample Program
Conversion of a Sample Code Block
Initialization/Shutdown -
Basic Data Types
GnomeVFSResult - Result of I/O operations, the equivalent of errno
GnomeVFSURI - Functions for manipulating URIs
gnome-vfs-utils - various utilities functions to manipulate uris
GnomeVFSFileInfo - stores information about files, GnomeVFS equivalent of stat
GnomeVFSFileSize -
Files and Directories Manipulation
File Handling
Directory Handling
Advanced Operations
Volumes and Drives Handling
GnomeVFSVolume - Abstraction for a mounted file system or a network location.
GnomeVFSDrive - Container for GnomeVFSVolume (floppy drive, CD reader, ...)
GnomeVFSVolumeMonitor - Monitors volume mounts and unmounts
Networking
Zeroconf networking support - Gets information about available Zeroconf (aka RendezVous) services on a local network.
DNS Resolution - Generic thread-safe address resolution functions.
SSL support functions - Functions to send and receive encrypted data over a socket.
Unified network I/O - Posix style network input/output functions.
Unified bufferd network I/O - Posix style buffered network input/output.
Internet connection - Simple TCP/IP connection functions.
MIME Registry
File Types - functions for getting information about files based on their MIME type
MIME Database Monitor - monitor the MIME database for changes (primarily for file browsers)
gnome-vfs-mime-database-deprecated -
Deprecated Application Registry API - do not use in new code
Filesystem Modules
Writing Modules - basic gnome-vfs module concepts
MIME typing - functions to get a mime-type for a file using its name or its content
gnome-vfs-method -
gnome-vfs-module -
gnome-vfs-module-shared -
gnome-vfs-module-callback-module-api - invoking callbacks from a gnome-vfs module to ask the application for necessary information (authentication, ...)
GnomeVFSContext - contexts allows modules to track thread usage and cancellation properly
gnome-vfs-transform -
gnome-vfs-parse-ls - convenience functions for modules which want to parse a ls-like directory listing
gnome-vfs-standard-callbacks - standard callbacks for use by gnome-vfs module writers
gnome-vfs-module-callback - functions used by apps if they want to answer to callback invocations by gnome-vfs modules