Method
GioFilemake_symbolic_link
Declaration [src]
gboolean
g_file_make_symbolic_link (
GFile* file,
const char* symlink_value,
GCancellable* cancellable,
GError** error
)
Description [src]
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-
Type:
const char*A string with the path for the target of the new symlink.
The data is owned by the caller of the method. The value is a platform-native string, using the preferred OS encoding on Unix and UTF-8 on Windows. cancellable-
Type:
GCancellableOptional
GCancellableobject,NULLto ignore.The argument can be NULL.The data is owned by the caller of the method. error-
Type:
GError **The return location for a recoverable error.
The argument can be NULL.If the return location is not NULL, then you must initialize it to aNULLGError*.The argument will be left initialized to NULLby the method if there are no errors.In case of error, the argument will be set to a newly allocated GError; the caller will take ownership of the data, and be responsible for freeing it.