Re: System calls to Copy files using nautilus

[Cosimo Cecchi <cosimoc gnome org>]

On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 17:20 -0400, Anupama Chandwani wrote:
> Hi..
> 
> I want to intercept the copying of files that nautilus will do.
> However, nautilus does not use /usr/bin/cp. Nor is there an open () of
> the file I am copying in the strace result.
> 
> Can anyone please help me understand how files are copied and what
> system calls are used for it?

Hi, for doing file operations Nautilus uses GIO, which is an extensible
VFS abstraction library that supports local and remote file transfers.
GIO is part of GLib, so you may want to check out glib documentation to
find out more.

Cheers!

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Cosimo