Method

GioFilemake_symbolic_link

Declaration

gboolean
g_file_make_symbolic_link (
  GFile* file,
  const char* symlink_value,
  GCancellable* cancellable,
  GError** error
)

Description

Creates a symbolic link named file which contains the string symlink_value.

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.

Parameters

`symlink_value`	`const char*`
	A string with the path for the target of the new symlink.
	The data is owned by the caller of the function.
	The value is a file system path, using the OS encoding.
`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:	`gboolean`
	`TRUE` on the creation of a new symlink, `FALSE` otherwise.