Function

GLibfile_read_link

Declaration

gchar*
g_file_read_link (
  const gchar* filename,
  GError** error
)

Description

Reads the contents of the symbolic link filename like the POSIX readlink() function. The returned string is in the encoding used for filenames. Use g_filename_to_utf8() to convert it to UTF-8.

Available since:

2.4

Parameters

`filename`	`const gchar*`
	The symbolic link.
	The data is owned by the caller of the function.
	The value is a file system path, using the OS encoding.
`error`	`GError **`
	The return location for a `GError*`, or `NULL`.

Return value

Returns:	`gchar*`
	A newly-allocated string with the contents of the symbolic link, or `NULL` if an error occurred.
	The caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.
	The value is a file system path, using the OS encoding.