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1 /* gstdio.h - GFilename wrappers for C library functions
3 * Copyright 2004 Tor Lillqvist
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21 #ifndef __G_STDIO_H__
22 #define __G_STDIO_H__
24 #include <glib/gprintf.h>
26 #include <sys/stat.h>
28 G_BEGIN_DECLS
30 #if defined(G_OS_UNIX) && !defined(G_STDIO_NO_WRAP_ON_UNIX)
32 /* Just pass on to the system functions, so there's no potential for data
33 * format mismatches, especially with large file interfaces.
34 * A few functions can't be handled in this way, since they are not defined
35 * in a portable system header that we could include here.
38 #define g_chmod chmod
39 #define g_open open
40 #define g_creat creat
41 #define g_rename rename
42 #define g_mkdir mkdir
43 #define g_stat stat
44 #define g_lstat lstat
45 #define g_remove remove
46 #define g_fopen fopen
47 #define g_freopen freopen
49 int g_access (const gchar *filename,
50 int mode);
52 int g_chdir (const gchar *path);
54 int g_unlink (const gchar *filename);
56 int g_rmdir (const gchar *filename);
58 #else /* ! G_OS_UNIX */
60 /* Wrappers for C library functions that take pathname arguments. On
61 * Unix, the pathname is a file name as it literally is in the file
62 * system. On well-maintained systems with consistent users who know
63 * what they are doing and no exchange of files with others this would
64 * be a well-defined encoding, preferrably UTF-8. On Windows, the
65 * pathname is always in UTF-8, even if that is not the on-disk
66 * encoding, and not the encoding accepted by the C library or Win32
67 * API.
70 int g_access (const gchar *filename,
71 int mode);
73 int g_chmod (const gchar *filename,
74 int mode);
76 int g_open (const gchar *filename,
77 int flags,
78 int mode);
80 int g_creat (const gchar *filename,
81 int mode);
83 int g_rename (const gchar *oldfilename,
84 const gchar *newfilename);
86 int g_mkdir (const gchar *filename,
87 int mode);
89 int g_chdir (const gchar *path);
91 int g_stat (const gchar *filename,
92 struct stat *buf);
94 int g_lstat (const gchar *filename,
95 struct stat *buf);
97 int g_unlink (const gchar *filename);
99 int g_remove (const gchar *filename);
101 int g_rmdir (const gchar *filename);
103 FILE *g_fopen (const gchar *filename,
104 const gchar *mode);
106 FILE *g_freopen (const gchar *filename,
107 const gchar *mode,
108 FILE *stream);
110 #endif /* G_OS_UNIX */
112 G_END_DECLS
114 #endif /* __G_STDIO_H__ */