Method

GioFilemonitor_directory

Declaration

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

Description

Obtains a directory monitor for the given file. This may fail if directory monitoring is not supported.

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.

It does not make sense for flags to contain G_FILE_MONITOR_WATCH_HARD_LINKS, since hard links can not be made to directories. It is not possible to monitor all the files in a directory for changes made via hard links; if you want to do this then you must register individual watches with g_file_monitor().

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.