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Unix file system extensions in the GNOME environment

Ettore Perazzoli
Helix Code, Inc.
ettore@helixcode.com, https://primates.helixcode.com/~ettore/

• Introduction
  • Uniform file access
  • Representing special non-file objects
  • Asynchronous operation
• Existing User Space Virtual File Systems
  • The GNU Midnight Commander
  • KDE's kio
• The GNOME Virtual File System
• Extended URIs
• GNOME VFS API basics
  • The GnomeVFSURI object
  • The GnomeVFSResult enumeration
• Synchronous API
  • The GnomeVFSHandle object
  • Synchronous I/O Example
• Asynchronous API
  • The GnomeVFSAsyncHandle object
  • Opening a file as a GLib I/O channel
  • Asynchronous API example
• File attributes
• File transfer support
• Implementation of access plug-ins
• Implementation of asynchronous operations
• GNOME VFS and GNOME
• Availability
• Bibliography
• About this document ...