libgnomevfs-2(3) C Library Functions libgnomevfs-2(3)NAMElibgnomevfs-2 - GNOME Virtual File System
DESCRIPTION
GnomeVFS is obsolete. It has been superseded by libgio-2.0. See lib‐
gio-2.0(3).
GnomeVFS is a filesystem abstraction library which gives applications
plugable transparent access to a variety of "real" filesystems, from
WebDAV to digital cameras, to the local filesystem. It also contains a
number of other convenient file utilities such as a comprehensive MIME
database / Application registry, and a copy engine. Use of GnomeVFS
also ensures that an application or component will be usable by Nau‐
tilus or other GnomeVFS applications for handling the display of data
from various URIs.
Besides providing transparent access to data methods that you might
otherwise have to implement, GnomeVFS provides a number of convenient
libraries for processing URIs, detecting the MIME type of files, and
identifying which applications or components to launch to view a file
or what icon to use. Writing a GnomeVFS module may also be an appropri‐
ate solution to some data access problems as it allows the developer to
implement a relatively small number of functions to gain general
filesystem semantics.
To access the API documentation, you must install the developer version
of the package.
FILES
The following files are used by this application:
/usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so
GNOME Virtual File System shared library
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gnome-vfs-2.0
Location of developer documentation
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
│ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Availability │library/gnome/gnome-vfs │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Interface stability │Obsolete Volatile │
└─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
SEE ALSOgnomevfs-cat(1), gnomevfs-copy(1), gnomevfs-info(1), gnomevfs-ls(1),
gnomevfs-mkdir(1), nautilus(1), libgio-2.0(3), gnome-vfs-mime-magic(4),
gnome-vfs.applications(4), gnome-vfs.keys(4), gnome-vfs.mime(4),
attributes(5), gnome-interfaces(5)NOTES
Written by Brian Cameron, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2003, 2004, 2006,
2008.
SunOS 5.11 14 May 2008 libgnomevfs-2(3)
