Guile-GNOME-VFS

Guile-GNOME-VFS

This manual is for (gnome vfs) (version 2.16.2, updated 9 December 2011)

Copyright 2001-2007 The Free Software Foundation, Christophe Fergeau, Christian Neumair

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

• Overview: About GNOME-VFS and its Guile bindings.

Basic Data Types

• GnomeVFSResult: Result of I/O operations, the equivalent of errno
• GnomeVFSURI: A uniform resource identifier.
• gnome-vfs-utils: various utilities functions to manipulate uris
• GnomeVFSFileInfo: stores information about files, GnomeVFS equivalent of stat

File Operations

• Basic File Operations: Essential VFS operations. This includes creating, moving and deleting files,
• Truncating Files: Force files to a particular length
• Getting and Setting File Information: Convenient high-level abstraction for obtaining and setting file information,

Directory-Specific Operations

• Basic Directory Operations: Creating and removing directories.

Volumes and Drives Handling

• GnomeVFSVolume: Abstraction for a mounted file system or a network location.
• GnomeVFSDrive: Container for GnomeVFSVolume (floppy drive, CD reader, ...)
• GnomeVFSVolumeMonitor: Monitors volume mounts and unmounts

MIME Registry

• MIME typing: functions to get a mime-type for a file using its name or its content
• gnome-vfs-mime-utils
• MIME Database: functions for getting information about applications and components associated
• Undocumented: Undocumented functions.
• Type Index
• Function Index