Basic Types: Thunar-VFS Reference Manual

Basic Types

Basic Types — Standard Thunar-VFS types, defined for ease-of-use and portability.

Stable, unless otherwise indicated

#include <thunar-vfs/thunar-vfs.h>

Thunar-VFS defines a number of commonly used types to abstract the details of the underlying system.

Additional flags to pass to thunar_vfs_deep_count(), which control the exact behavior of the job.

THUNAR_VFS_DEEP_COUNT_FLAGS_NONE	no special behavior.
THUNAR_VFS_DEEP_COUNT_FLAGS_FOLLOW_SYMLINKS	follow symlinks to folders. If this flag is set, the job will also count symlinked folders recursively.

Describes the type of a file.

THUNAR_VFS_FILE_TYPE_PORT	An event port (Solaris event framework).
THUNAR_VFS_FILE_TYPE_DOOR	A door (Solaris IPC mechanism).
THUNAR_VFS_FILE_TYPE_SOCKET	A unix domain socket.
THUNAR_VFS_FILE_TYPE_SYMLINK	A broken symlink, for which the target does not exist (if the target would exist, the ThunarVfsInfo object would have the type of the target).
THUNAR_VFS_FILE_TYPE_REGULAR	A regular file.
THUNAR_VFS_FILE_TYPE_BLOCKDEV	A block device node.
THUNAR_VFS_FILE_TYPE_DIRECTORY	A directory node.
THUNAR_VFS_FILE_TYPE_CHARDEV	A character device node.
THUNAR_VFS_FILE_TYPE_FIFO	A named FIFO.
THUNAR_VFS_FILE_TYPE_UNKNOWN	The exact type of the file could not be determined.

Special flags and permissions of a filesystem entity.

THUNAR_VFS_FILE_MODE_SUID	SUID bit.
THUNAR_VFS_FILE_MODE_SGID	SGID bit.
THUNAR_VFS_FILE_MODE_STICKY	Sticky bit.
THUNAR_VFS_FILE_MODE_USR_ALL	Owner can do everything.
THUNAR_VFS_FILE_MODE_USR_READ	Owner can read the file.
THUNAR_VFS_FILE_MODE_USR_WRITE	Owner can write the file.
THUNAR_VFS_FILE_MODE_USR_EXEC	Owner can execute the file.
THUNAR_VFS_FILE_MODE_GRP_ALL	Owner group can do everything.
THUNAR_VFS_FILE_MODE_GRP_READ	Owner group can read the file.
THUNAR_VFS_FILE_MODE_GRP_WRITE	Owner group can write the file.
THUNAR_VFS_FILE_MODE_GRP_EXEC	Owner group can execute the file.
THUNAR_VFS_FILE_MODE_OTH_ALL	Others can do everything.
THUNAR_VFS_FILE_MODE_OTH_READ	Others can read the file.
THUNAR_VFS_FILE_MODE_OTH_WRITE	Others can write the file.
THUNAR_VFS_FILE_MODE_OTH_EXEC	Others can execute the file.

Flags providing additional information about the file system entity.

THUNAR_VFS_FILE_FLAGS_NONE	No additional information available.
THUNAR_VFS_FILE_FLAGS_SYMLINK	The file is a symlink. Whether or not the info fields refer to the symlink itself or the linked file, depends on whether the symlink is broken or not.
THUNAR_VFS_FILE_FLAGS_EXECUTABLE	The file can most probably be executed by `thunar_vfs_info_execute()`.
THUNAR_VFS_FILE_FLAGS_HIDDEN	The file should not be displayed normally, but only if the user requests to display hidden files. Hidden files start with a dot character ('.') or end with a tilde character ('~').
THUNAR_VFS_FILE_FLAGS_READABLE	The file can most probably be read by the current user.
THUNAR_VFS_FILE_FLAGS_WRITABLE	The file can most probably be written by the current user.

typedef dev_t ThunarVfsFileDevice;

Datatype to represent the device number of a file.

typedef gint64 ThunarVfsFileSize;

Datatype to represent file sizes (in bytes). The file size is always represented as a 64bit integer, even on system that do not support large files.

typedef time_t ThunarVfsFileTime;

Datatype to represent file times (in seconds).

typedef gid_t ThunarVfsGroupId;

Datatype to represent a group id.

typedef uid_t ThunarVfsUserId;

Datatype to represent a user id.