Unix file system extensions in the GNOME environment

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

Introduction
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
File attributes
File transfer support
Implementation of access plug-ins
Implementation of asynchronous operations
GNOME VFS and GNOME
Availability
Bibliography
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Ettore Perazzoli 2000-04-26

This paper was originally published in the Proceedings of the Freenix 2000 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, June 18-23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA

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