Method

GioFilemonitor

Declaration

GFileMonitor*
g_file_monitor (
  GFile* file,
  GFileMonitorFlags flags,
  GCancellable* cancellable,
  GError** error
)

Description

Obtains a file or directory monitor for the given file, depending on the type of the file.

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.

Available since:

2.18

Parameters

`flags`	`GFileMonitorFlags`
	A set of `GFileMonitorFlags`.
`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:	`GFileMonitor`
	A `GFileMonitor` for the given `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.