FileIF.monitorDirectory

Obtains a directory monitor for the given file. This may fail if directory monitoring is not supported.

If @cancellable is not %NULL, then the operation can be cancelled by triggering the cancellable object from another thread. If the operation was cancelled, the error %G_IO_ERROR_CANCELLED will be returned.

It does not make sense for @flags to contain %G_FILE_MONITOR_WATCH_HARD_LINKS, since hard links can not be made to directories. It is not possible to monitor all the files in a directory for changes made via hard links; if you want to do this then you must register individual watches with g_file_monitor().

interface FileIF
monitorDirectory

Parameters

flags GFileMonitorFlags

a set of #GFileMonitorFlags

cancellable Cancellable

optional #GCancellable object, %NULL to ignore

Return Value

a #GFileMonitor for the given @file, or %NULL on error. Free the returned object with g_object_unref().

Throws

GException on failure.

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