Re: How to get file type when G_FILE_MONITOR_EVENT_DELETED?

[Vikram Ambrose <noel ambrose gmail com>]

On 12/12/2010 05:10 AM, Lex Trotman wrote:
> On 12 December 2010 19:09, Vikram Ambrose<noel ambrose gmail com>  wrote:
> > How do you figure out the file type inside GFileMonitor's "changed" callback
> > when the GFileMonitorEvent is a G_FILE_MONITOR_EVENT_DELETED?
> >
> > I was erroneously using g_file_query_file_type()!=G_FILE_TYPE_DIRECTORY,
> > without actually looking at the return value, until recently discovered that
> > since the GFile in question has just been deleted, it would always return
> > G_FILE_TYPE_UNKNOWN.
> A deleted file doesn't exist so it doesn't have a type.  Since the
> event is telling you the file is deleted you already know this and
> don't need to query the type (or you can use the fact that
> G_FILE_TYPE_UNKNOWN is documented to mean does not exist.

I don't understand what you mean by "don't need to query the type". I 
want to know if the _EVENT_DELETED was for a regular file or a directory.

Does this mean that I would need to service "changed" for directories 
with a different callback from what I use for regular files just to be 
able to differentiate between the file types for this event?


/V