File.monitor

Obtains a file or directory monitor for the given file, depending on the type of the file. 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. Since 2.18

Parameters

flags GFileMonitorFlags

a set of GFileMonitorFlags

cancellable Cancellable

optional GCancellable object, NULL to ignore. [allow-none]

Return Value

a GFileMonitor for the given file, or NULL on error. Free the returned object with g_object_unref(). [transfer full]

Throws

GException on failure.

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