Method

GLibIOChannelread_line_string

Declaration 

GIOStatus
g_io_channel_read_line_string (
  GIOChannel* channel,
  GString* buffer,
  gsize* terminator_pos,
  GError** error
)

Description

Reads a line from a GIOChannel, using a GString as a buffer.

Parameters

buffer

Type: GString

A GString into which the line will be written. If buffer already contains data, the old data will be overwritten.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.
terminator_pos

Type: gsize*

Location to store position of line terminator, or NULL.

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: GIOStatus

The status of the operation.