Virtual Method

GioFilemake_symbolic_link

Declaration [src] 

gboolean
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: GCancellable

Optional GCancellable object, NULL to 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 a NULL GError*.
The argument will be left initialized to NULL by the virtual function 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: gboolean

TRUE on the creation of a new symlink, FALSE otherwise.