Method

GioFilecreate_readwrite

Declaration

GFileIOStream*
g_file_create_readwrite (
  GFile* file,
  GFileCreateFlags flags,
  GCancellable* cancellable,
  GError** error
)

Description

Creates a new file and returns a stream for reading and writing to it. The file must not already exist.

By default files created are generally readable by everyone, but if you pass G_FILE_CREATE_PRIVATE in flags the file will be made readable only to the current user, to the level that is supported on the target filesystem.

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.

If a file or directory with this name already exists, the G_IO_ERROR_EXISTS error will be returned. Some file systems don’t allow all file names, and may return an G_IO_ERROR_INVALID_FILENAME error, and if the name is too long, G_IO_ERROR_FILENAME_TOO_LONG will be returned. Other errors are possible too, and depend on what kind of filesystem the file is on.

Note that in many non-local file cases read and write streams are not supported, so make sure you really need to do read and write streaming, rather than just opening for reading or writing.

Available since:

2.22

Parameters

`flags`	`GFileCreateFlags`
	A set of `GFileCreateFlags`.
`cancellable`	`GCancellable`
	Optional `GCancellable` object, `NULL` to ignore.
	The argument can be `NULL`.
	The data is owned by the caller of the function.
`error`	`GError **`
	The return location for a `GError*`, or `NULL`.

Return value

Returns:	`GFileIOStream`
	A `GFileIOStream` for the newly created file, or `NULL` on error. Free the returned object with g_object_unref().
	The caller of the method takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.