Method

GioFileget_parent

Declaration

GFile*
g_file_get_parent (
  GFile* file
)

Description

Gets the parent directory for the file. If the file represents the root directory of the file system, then NULL will be returned.

This call does no blocking I/O.

Return value

Type: GFile

A GFile structure to the parent of the given GFile or NULL if there is no parent. Free the returned object with g_object_unref().

The caller of the method takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.
The return value can be NULL.