Method

GioFileInputStreamquery_info

Declaration

GFileInfo*
g_file_input_stream_query_info (
  GFileInputStream* stream,
  const char* attributes,
  GCancellable* cancellable,
  GError** error
)

Description

Queries a file input stream the given attributes. This function blocks while querying the stream. For the asynchronous (non-blocking) version of this function, see g_file_input_stream_query_info_async(). While the stream is blocked, the stream will set the pending flag internally, and any other operations on the stream will fail with G_IO_ERROR_PENDING.

Parameters

attributes

Type: const char*

A file attribute query string.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.
cancellable

Type: GCancellable

Optional GCancellable object, NULL to ignore.

The argument can be NULL.
The data is owned by the caller of the function.
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 a NULL GError*.
The argument will left initialized to NULL by 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.

Return value

Type: GFileInfo

A GFileInfo, or NULL on error.

The caller of the method takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.